Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire--Long Form

State of the Art of Job Satisfaction Measures: A Systematic Review

“…26, nº 2, p. 987-1002 -June/2018 Dawis, & England, 1967), the Questionário de satisfação laboral S20/23 (Meliá & Peiró, 1989), the Cuestionario Font Roja de Satisfacción Laboral (Aranaz & Mira, 1988), the Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS; Stamps, Piedmont, Slavitt, & Haase, 1978), the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS; Hackman & Oldham, 1975), the Questionário Geral de Satisfação WCW (Warr et al, 1979), the McCloskey-Mueller Job Satisfaction Scale (MMSS; Mueller & McCloskey, 1990) and the Escala de Satisfação no Trabalho (EST; Siqueira, 1995), with these instruments having at least 4 quantitative studies returned by the systematic review. Table 4 presents data of the most used scales in the studies found by this study, showing: instrument name, author of the original measure, instrument publication year, country of origin and countries with published studies using this measure.…”

“…Among the instruments most used in the studies returned by the systematic review, the MSQ (Weiss et al, 1967) had the largest number of different countries with studies using this measure, with a total of 11 countries. The MSQ was followed by the JSS (Spector, 1985), which had publications in 10 countries.…”

Organizational Culture and Employee Satisfaction: An Exploratory Study

“…Actually this complies with the paradigm shift to humanism in business and psychological insights should become the basis for management [6]. Researchers have studied some psychological measures such as job satisfaction [7]- [9], organizational commitment [10]- [12], and psychological empowerment [13]. This research focuses on employee satisfaction and its relationship with organizational culture, especially for the case of a Chinese family firm.…”

“…Although it is designed by Weiss et.al in 1967 [9], this scale is still used by many researchers [8]. The MSQ scale is a five-point Likert scale, containing 20 items and each item is scored from 1 to 5 (very dissatisfied, dissatisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, satisfied, very satisfied).…”

The Development of the Job Satisfaction Scale for Hospital Staff in Taiwan

“…Then there were a variety of different scale forms developed and modified by JSI. Up to now the most commonly used techniques for measuring job satisfaction have been the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al, 1967) and the Job Description Index (JDI) (Smith, Kendall and Hulin, 1969).…”