Assessing employee engagement: a comparison of the Job Engagement Scale and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale
Date
2012
Authors
Drake, Travis J., author
Byrne, Zinta, advisor
Gibbons, Alyssa, committee member
Albert, Lumina, committee member
Rickard, Kathryn, committee member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Abstract
Two employee engagement measures were compared and contrasted to determine if one is better than the other, or if both are required to adequately assess the construct domain. The first measure is Rich, LePine, and Crawford's (2010) Job Engagement Scale based on Kahn's (1990) conceptualization of engagement. The second measure is Schaufeli, Salanova, Gonzalez-Romá, and Bakker's (2002) Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, based on Maslach and Leiter's (1997) conceptualization of engagement. The measures were compared by examining their convergent and discriminant construct validity, examining the factor structure of each measure, and examining the criterion-related validity of each through dominance analysis. Using responses from 470 working adults, results showed significant differences between the UWES and JES in terms of construct and criterion-related validity evidence.
Description
Rights Access
Subject
comparison
employee
engagement
measure
organizational
scale