Korean pilot study for a new JCQ 2.0
The Korean occupational health and
safety community (Dr. Sungil Cho)
offered to field a 9,000 person study to pilot a new JCQ 2.0, if a version
could be quickly developed. The JCQ International Board responded quickly
to this opportunity, and with some intense Board discussions, produced a
"Proto-Pilot" which was an adaptation of a "sample idea"
posted on the JCQ Center website (www.jcqcenter.org
à JCQ 2.0 à section IV: A sample JCQ
2.0).
This "Proto-Pilot" is of
course only a beginning. These new scales together with the old core, should certainly help us to understand the usefulness
of some of the new ideas. But with the limited time for development, and
limited communication with JCQ Users, the proto-pilot represents a
"work-in-progress." There was certainly no time to make final
decisions, and most of the major discussion topics could not be reviewed, by
either the Board or the User's who participated. However, the reality of
a "New Data" coming in the near future can "jump starts" the
re-design dialogue. The fact we now have some "concrete anchor"
in the form of some new JCQ 2.0 gives us a more secure platform to address the
very broad theoretical and methodological discussion on measurement of some of
the global economy and new psychological demands topics outlined in the JCQ 2.0
website documents. To promote this discussion we are placing a record of
some of the commentary of "proto-pilot" discussion on the website,
along with the "Proto-Pilot."