Development of the Work Intention Inventory Short–Form

Abstract

The Work Intention Inventory (WII: Zigarmi, Nimon, Houson, Witt, & Diehl, 2012) was designed to assess five measures of work intention. Measuring employee intentions is important to consider when evaluating outcomes associated with employee engagement or work passion as research indicates intentions are strong predictors of behavior. Following scale reduction procedures developed by Stanton, Sinar, Balzer, and Smith (2002), we used inter‐item covariance matrices from Zigarmi et al. (2012) and data resulting from the field test of the WII‐Short Form (WII‐SF) in a manufacturing company to develop a short form of the WII and provide initial evidence of construct validity. There is preliminary evidence to indicate that the WII‐SF may offer practitioners and researchers an efficient way to reliably and validly assess employee work intentions

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“…The subscale scores were calculated by taking the average score of the items. Previous studies reported acceptable alpha coefficients ranging from .82 to .94 (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015), and .87…”

“…* Adapted from "Development of the Work Intention Inventory Short-Form," by K. Nimon and D. Zigarmi, 2015 This study was also approved through 45 CFR 46.117(c), which means that an IRB may waive the requirement for the investigator to obtain a signed informed consent form for some or all subjects if it finds either:…”

“…The purpose of the scale is to assess a set of five work intentions resulting from employees' state of well-being, or lack thereof (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015). Validation evidence for the work intention inventory was established over the course of two studies, with a research design that followed a sequential exploratory-confirmatory procedure in order to examine, refine, and confirm the factor structure of the scales (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015;Zigarmi et al, 2012). The exploratory factor analysis employed principal axis factoring and promax rotation due to a hypothesized underlying theoretical structure of correlated factors; the confirmatory factor analysis employed the maximum likelihood estimation technique for testing the models.…”

“…This study adopted the short form of the Work Intention Inventory (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015) to assess a set of five work intentions resulting from employees' state of well-being (or lack thereof). This variable served as a dependent variable and consisted of following five dimensions: intent to endorse, intent to engage organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB's), intent to exert discretionary effort, intent to perform, and intent to stay.…”

“…Work intentions were measured using the work intention inventory-short form (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015). The purpose of the scale is to assess a set of five work intentions resulting from employees' state of well-being, or lack thereof (Nimon & Zigarmi, 2015).…”