Job Challenge Profile, Facilitator Guide

APPENDIX B

Psychometric Properties of the Job Challenge Profile

A number of analyses were conducted to build evidence that scores on the current version of the Job Challenge Profile are reliable and are valid measures of developmental job components. Reliability and validity evidence for earlier versions of the instrument can be found in McCauley, Ruderman, Ohlott, and Morrow (1994).

Three samples of managers who completed the JCP were used in the analyses:

•  Sample 1 consisted of 1,143 managers who completed the JCP between 1992 and 1996 as participants in a management development program. These managers were from a variety of companies and were normally distributed by organizational level. There were almost equal numbers of men (51 percent) ...