Work values
What a job has to give you before the subject matter starts to matter.
- Questions
- 36
- 5 min
- The six work values of the Theory of Work Adjustment
What this is
The six values are Dawis and Lofquist's, reduced from the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire's twenty needs by factor analysis, and adopted under these names by the US Department of Labor for the O*NET Work Importance Locator — a federal work product released under CC BY 4.0. The taxonomy is free to use with attribution; the Minnesota questionnaire is not, and none of its items are here. These thirty-six sentences are ours, which means the six-factor structure is a property of the Minnesota data and not of this bank. It has never been given to a sample and has no norms.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedThe six work values of the Theory of Work Adjustment
The six work values come from Dawis and Lofquist's Theory of Work Adjustment and were adopted by the US Department of Labor for O*NET, which publishes them under CC BY 4.0. The Minnesota Importance Questionnaire's items are not used.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Dawis, R. V., & Lofquist, L. H. (1984). A psychological theory of work adjustment: An individual-differences model and its applications (opens in a new tab). University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolisoriginal source
- McCloy, R., Waugh, G., Medsker, G., Wall, J., Rivkin, D., & Lewis, P. (1999). Development of the O*NET paper-and-pencil Work Importance Locator (opens in a new tab). National Center for O*NET Development, Raleigh, NCoriginal source
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.