From: Individual and organizational predictors of health care aide job satisfaction in long term care
Scale | Description | Number of Items | Scoring | Cronbach’s Alpha |
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Unit Level | ||||
ACT-Leadership | The actions of formal leaders in the unit influence change and excellence in practice. | 6 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.8369 |
ACT-Culture | The way that “we do things” in our organization and work units. | 6 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.7707 |
ACT-Evaluation | The process of using data to assess group/team performances and to achieve outcomes in organizations or units. | 6 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.7969 |
ACT-Formal Interaction | Formal exchanges that occur between individuals working within an organization (unit) through scheduled activities that can promote the transfer of knowledge. | 4 | Five-point Likert frequency scale (never-almost always). Recode to 0 = no interaction, 1 = interaction. Take count of recoded items. | 0.4401 |
ACT-Informal Interaction | Information exchanges that occur between individuals working within a organization (unit) that can promote the transfer of knowledge. | 9 | Five-point Likert frequency scale (never-almost always). Recode to 0 = no interaction, 1 = interaction. Take count of recoded items. | 0.6820 |
ACT-Social Capital | The stock of active connections among people. | 6 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.7430 |
ACT-Structural Resources | The structural and electronic elements of an organization (unit) that facilitate the ability to assess and use knowledge. | 7 | Five-point Likert frequency scale (never to almost always). Recode items to 0 = no resource, 1 = resource, take count of recoded items. | 0.7329 |
ACT-Organizational Slack-Staff | The cushion of actual or potential resources that allows an organization (unit) to adapt successfully to internal pressures for adjustments or to external pressures for changes. | 3 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.9291 |
ACT-Organizational Slack-Space | 2 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.8085 | |
ACT-Organizational Slack-Time | 4 | Mean of items on five-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree) | 0.8586 | |
Individual Level | ||||
MBI-Exhaustion | Job stress that results in psychological exhaustion. | 3 | Mean of items on seven-point Likert frequency scale (never-daily) | 0.7521 |
MBI-Cynicism | 3 | Mean of items on seven-point Likert frequency scale (never-daily) | 0.6293 | |
MBI-Professional Efficacy | 3 | Mean of items on seven-point Likert frequency scale (never-daily) | 0.5168 |