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KWReq—a new instrument for measuring knowledge work requirements of higher education graduates

Published:2021-08-16 Issue:1 Volume:55 Page:
ISSN:2510-5019
Container-title:Journal for Labour Market Research
language:en
Short-container-title:J Labour Market Res

Author:

Trommer Maximilian,Schaeper Hildegard^ORCID,Fabian Gregor

Abstract

AbstractStarting from the observation that questionnaires for appropriately measuring the changing working conditions and requirements of the highly qualified workforce do not exist, we developed a new German-language instrument focussing on knowledge work. Based on theoretical considerations, we first identified three basic dimensions that constitute knowledge work: novelty, complexity, and autonomy. During the subsequent process of questionnaire development with higher education graduates, including a cognitive pretest, a quantitative development study, and a replication study, these dimensions were operationalised by initially 173 and finally 22 items. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling of the data of both the development and the replication study show that the 22-item instrument validly and reliably measures novelty (4 items), complexity with three subdimensions (9 items), and autonomy, also with three subdimensions (9 items). An English version of the questionnaire is available. However, the empirical test of the English-language questionnaire as well as possible refinements of the measurement instrument, which will be discussed in the final section of the paper, are left to future research.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12651-021-00303-2.pdf

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