A Comment of Jeffery V. Johnson
I've spent
the day searching for relevant scales in the broad work and organizational
social support domain. I've used a computerized database (HaPI, an acronym for Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
developed by the Behavioral Measurement Database Services and available through
OVID. Here are some 'hits' -- (Many of which seem to be available in a new book
published by Sage -- Taking the Measure of Work by Fields, D.L., 2002)
a.
Organizational Trust Inventory (Naquin & Paulson, 2003)
b.
Organizational Fairness Questionnaire (Griffeth &
Gaertner, 2001)
c.
Organizational Power (
d. Perceived
Power Equity Scale (Fenaughty, 2003)
e. Management
and Governance Survey, Alexander et al, 2001
f. Worker Empowerment Scale (Leslie et al, 1998)
g. Empowerment
at work scale (Fields, 2002)
i. Organizational resources for stress management (Quick,
1990)
j. Work
Climate Survey (Deci, 1989)
k.
Organizational Environment questionnaire for human service workers
(Foster-Fishman,
1999
l. Perceptions
of management support (Morris, 1999)
m. Perceptions
of Fair Interpersonal Treatment Scale (1998)
n. Conflict in
the workplace (Nicotera, 1994)
o. Relations
with other departments or units measure
p.
Organizational control (Khandwalla, 1994)
q. Percieved Organizational
Support -- this has been used a great deal!
Developed by Eisenberger -- does anyone know about this one?
I could go on here, but the point
is that there is a great deal of work that has been done in organizational
psychology and sociology and in management studies that have looked at some of
these variables -- perhaps not exactly from our perspective, but nevertheless,
there is overlap – particularly when it comes to the organizational justice
measures.