Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job related Well-being A Benchmarking Manual

The first edition of this manual was published by the Institute of Work Psychology in 1999. It presented three widely used measurement scales of Job Satisfaction, Mental Health and Job-related Well-being, along with benchmarking data for comparison. For this second edition, there is an additional chapter detailing a widely used measure of Organizational Commitment, and an expanded introduction to the book presenting a rationale for the work and explaining how it can help researchers and professionals. The benchmarking data is based on a sample of almost 60,000 respondents from 115 different organizations across a wide spectrum of industries and occupations. Information is given by occupational group, and is further broken down by age and gender.Each of the chapters is devoted to a reliable and widely used measurement scale of employee well-being, comprising of a description of the scale and brief development history, followed by the supporting benchmarking data.

Chris Stride obtained his first degree in Mathematics and Statistics and his Ph.D in Statistics at the University of Warwick, England. He is the statistician at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield.

Toby D. Wall obtained his first degree and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Nottingham, England. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, where he was the former director of the Institute of Work Psychology and ESRC Centre for Organisation and Innovation.

Nick Catley obtained both his first degree and his M.Sc in Economics at the University of Warwick, England. He is an auditor at the National Audit Office, London.