The Satisfaction With My Supervisor Scale: Its Utility for Research and Practical Applications
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Management
- Vol. 13 (3) , 447-466
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014920638701300302
Abstract
This paper describes initial development and testing of an empirically derived scale that measures satisfaction with immediate supervision. The Satisfaction With My Supervisor Scale (SWMSS) was developed over a 3-year period. Developmental samples consisted of 2,101 employees at seven manufacturing plants located across the United States. The scale was subsequently applied to a sample of 1,104 employees of a major insurance company in New England. The SWMSS exhibits convergent, discriminant, predictive, and content validities. Moreover, it shows promise for generalizability across employee groups and employment situations.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Psychometric and substantive issues in scale construction and validation.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1982
- Overall Job Satisfaction: Is It a Linear Function of Facet Satisfaction?Human Relations, 1981
- The Hierarchy of Management Skills:Management Decision, 1979
- Work attitudes as predictors of unionization activity.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1978
- Examination of Alternative Models of Job SatisfactionHuman Relations, 1978
- RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEADER BEHAVIOR VARIABILITY INDICES AND SUBORDINATE RESPONSES1,2Personnel Psychology, 1977
- Relationships of stress to individually and organizationally valued states: Higher order needs as a moderator.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1976
- An investigation of the validity of leader behavior descriptions obtained from subordinates.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1976
- Construct validity in psychological tests.Psychological Bulletin, 1955
- The description of supervisory behavior.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1953