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Measuring Total Rewards Satisfaction: A Scale Development Study


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Total Rewards Strategy has been used as a viable strategy to motivate and retain employees across sectors. However, the existing scales have been found to display construct related weaknesses in terms of under-representation of total rewards as a multidimensional construct and measuring it as a reflective higher-order construct. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measure of total rewards satisfaction (TRS) as a formative higher order construct. Different phases of quantitative validations were carried out with a new data set for each of the studies viz. content validity (n = 13 experts), exploratory factor analysis (n = 180) for determining factorial structure of the scale, first-order confirmatory composite analysis (n = 215) and second- order confirmatory analysis (n= 120) confirm a six-dimensional structure of 23-item TRS scale. The psychometric properties of the scale have also been reported.
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Jeeta Sarkar
Research Scholar,Xavier School of Human Resource Management, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract


Total Rewards Strategy has been used as a viable strategy to motivate and retain employees across sectors. However, the existing scales have been found to display construct related weaknesses in terms of under-representation of total rewards as a multidimensional construct and measuring it as a reflective higher-order construct. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measure of total rewards satisfaction (TRS) as a formative higher order construct. Different phases of quantitative validations were carried out with a new data set for each of the studies viz. content validity (n = 13 experts), exploratory factor analysis (n = 180) for determining factorial structure of the scale, first-order confirmatory composite analysis (n = 215) and second- order confirmatory analysis (n= 120) confirm a six-dimensional structure of 23-item TRS scale. The psychometric properties of the scale have also been reported.

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