Work Design Questionnaire.
WDQ
Work characteristics across 21 dimensions in four categories: task characteristics (autonomy, task variety, task significance, task identity, feedback from the job), knowledge characteristics (job complexity, information processing, problem solving, skill variety, specialization), social characteristics (social support, interdependence, interaction outside the organization, feedback from others) and work context (ergonomics, physical demands, work conditions, equipment use).
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 77 items. 5-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated adaptations in Spanish (including the WDQ-S short version), German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Persian, Turkish and Greek among others - one of the most systematically adapted work-design measures.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Morgeson, F. P., & Humphrey, S. E. (2006). The Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ): Developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing job design and the nature of work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(6), 1321-1339.
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