The job characteristics model in Hong Kong

Abstract

Measured the core job dimensions from 57 jobs in Hong Kong by job incumbents' self-reports on the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS), supervisory ratings on the Job Rating Form (JRF), and job incumbent work satisfaction on the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) to examine the convergent and discriminant validities of the JDS and the JRF, using confirmatory factor analysis. Results indicate that, although the 5-trait model as suggested by the job characteristics model did not fit the data, a modified 4-trait model did. Results also indicate that the supervisory ratings of job characteristics had greater trait variance and less method variance than the ratings provided by the job incumbents. Subsequent correlational analysis further revealed that the within-person correlations between incumbents' task descriptions and work satisfaction as measured by the JDS and JDI work scales might be inflated by the common source variance and the confounding of items in the 2 scales. (41 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)