Abstract
A stratified sample of full-time employees from a range of organisations and occupations in New Zealand was selected to compare the utility of an Australian work ethic measure designed recently by Ho and Lloyd (1984) with two established measures of work attitudes — Blood's (1969) Protestant work ethic questionnaire and Kanungo's (1982) work involvement scale. The Australian work ethic survey had high internal consistency and temporal stability, along with good convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity. In contrast, both of the Blood subscales (pro-Protestant and non-Protestant work beliefs) lacked reliability and showed inconsistent correlations with other relevant variables. Kanungo's work involvement scale was reliable and displayed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity, but its criterion validity was not demonstrated in this study. From these findings it is evident that the Australian work ethic questionnaire may be a valuable alternative to traditional work ethic measures.
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