BSCOM 360 - Organizational Orientations Worksheet

Organizational Orientations Worksheet BSCOM/360 Version 3

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Organizational Orientations Worksheet

Part A: Organizational Orientations Scale

Indicate the degree to which you agree or disagree with each of the statements below by recording your response in the space before each item. Use the following response options:

Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree

1 2 3 4 5

_______ 1. I generally try my best to do what an organization I work for wants me to do.

_______ 2. If I had the choice, I would take a promotion over the acceptance of my peers.

_______ 3. One of my goals is to get a good job and excel at it.

_______ 4. Eventually, I would like to be the “big boss” in an organization.

_______ 5. I firmly believe that if I work hard enough, one day I will be at the top.

_______ 6. I am good at my job, and I love it.

_______ 7. Most of all, I truly want to be recognized for the excellent work I do.

_______ 8. Moving up in an organization is worth all the work I have to do.

_______ 9. Sometimes I think I am a “workaholic.”

_______10. I want a job in which what I do really counts for something.

_______11. Everyone tells me I am a really good worker.

_______12. I want work which has a lot of intangible rewards.

_______13. Ordinarily, I feel good about what I have accomplished when I am done with my day's work.

_______14. I would be willing to work hard to be the top person in an organization.

_______15. Since I am really good at what I do, I will move up in the organization.

_______16. What I want most in a job is the possibility of really doing something

important.

_______17. Any job worth doing is worth doing as well as I can.

_______18. I am a very creative worker.

_______ 19. Other than a paycheck, the organizations I have worked for have had little to offer me.

_______ 20. The product/service produced by organizations where I have worked are of very low quality.

_______ 21. I have generally not been quite satisfied with jobs I have had.

_______ 22. The organizations I have worked for could not care less whether I live or die, and I feel the same way about them.

_______ 23. I really dislike the rules and regulations I am forced to live with in organizations.

_______ 24. I am usually unhappy wherever I work.

_______ 25. Everywhere I have worked, I have had an incompetent supervisor.

_______ 26. Wherever I work, I wish I were working somewhere else than where I am.

_______ 27. The procedures and regulations of organizations I have worked for have not generally been reasonable.

_______ 28. I find it difficult to adapt to the demands of most organizations.

_______ 29. Generally, I do not like the rules that organizations make me follow.

_______ 30. I do not really like most of the people with whom I have worked.

_______ 31. I have not worked for really good organizations.

_______ 32. Most organizations have unreasonable expectations for workers like me.

_______ 33. Most of the time, a halfhearted effort is all I feel I need to give in a job.

_______ 34. I really hate most organizations for which I have worked.

_______ 35. One supervisor is about like any other, a pain in the backside.

_______ 36. What I want most in a job is to be left alone.

_______ 37. Frankly, I am smarter than most of the people for whom I have worked.

_______ 38. I have been unhappy just about everywhere I have worked.

_______ 39. My life begins when I get off work.

_______ 40. If I were offered a job that paid better, I would take it in a “New York minute.”

_______ 41. A job is a job--everyone has to work somewhere.

_______ 42. I am generally indifferent to where I work. One job is about the same as another.

_______ 43. Generally, I just do as much as is required by my job.

_______ 44. I am entitled to my sick days, whether I am sick or not.

_______ 45. I do not much care where I work, so long as the pay is good.

_______ 46. When work is over, life begins.

_______ 47. One job is pretty much like any other job.

_______48. If I found out the organization I worked for was in trouble, I would quickly look for a job in another organization.

_______49. Work is something I have to do, not something I want to do.

_______50. When it comes to choosing a job, “Show me the money!”

SCORING: To compute your scores follow the instructions below:

1. Upwardly Mobile Orientation

Add scores for items 1 to 18 _________________________

2. Ambivalent Orientation

Add scores for items 19 to 38 _________________________

3. Indifferent Orientation

Add scores for items 39 to 50 _________________________

Source:

McCroskey, J. C., Richmond, V. P., Johnson, A. D., & Smith, H. T. (Under Review). Organizational orientations theory and measurement: Development of measures and preliminary investigations. Communication Quarterly.

Part B: Short Paragraph Questions

Respond to each question below with at least 150 words. Consider the information contained in the text Organizational Communication for Survival in your responses.

4. Given your scores above and the descriptions of each organizational orientation as provided in Ch. 7 and the discussion of personality and communication traits in Ch. 6, what have you learned about your communication with others that will help you in your career?

5. What specific aspects of your communication skills and style do you believe you need to improve your interpersonal relationships within the organization?

6. Given the readings in Ch. 1-5 of Organizational Communication for Survival, why is understanding the nature of and the perspectives associated with organizational communication important?

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