What does the WWO scale measure?
What aspects of work and well-being is the QoWL Workplace Wellbeing (WWO) scale related to?
| Outcome/factor |
What this measures |
| Employee engagement
factor |
Whether people feel
‘engaged’ and would go the extra mile (linked to a number of the specific
outcomes below) |
| Perception of fair pay |
Whether people feel
their pay is fair, given their experience |
| Relationships with
others |
Satisfaction with
working relationships |
| Quality of supervision |
Satisfaction with how
people are managed |
| Interesting, varied
work |
Whether work provides
interest variety, stimulation and challenge |
| Intention to stay |
Staff retention;
whether people intend to stay |
| Job security |
How secure people feel
in their current job |
| Overall QoWL |
Overall quality of
working life, whether the culture is healthy |
| Work-life balance |
Satisfaction with
work-life balance in the organisation |
| Motivation |
Whether people feel
motivated at work; linked to engagement |
| Enjoyment of work |
The level of
enjoyment; how much people enjoy their work |
| Family support for
work |
Work-life balance,
inadequate support from organisation |
| Communication at work |
Satisfaction with
communication in the organisation |
| Pride in the
organisation |
Whether people are
proud to be working for the organisation; linked to engagement |
| Personal productivity |
Whether people feel
they are productive and performing well relative to others |
| Anxiety |
How worried or anxious
people are; general anxiety |
| Would recommend the
organisation |
Whether people would
recommend their organisation to others; linked to engagement |
| Sense of achievement |
Whether people get a
sense of achievement at work; linked to engagement |
| Traveling to work |
Whether traveling to
work is a problem for people |
| Sleep |
Whether people feel
they are sleeping well |
| Overall job
satisfaction |
Lack of enjoyment,
dissatisfaction, unhappiness at work |