관계-조직-직무 직원몰입(ROWEE) 척도 개발 및 타당화 연구

초록

Employee engagement reflects employees’ voluntary involvement and requires rigorous measurement integrating organizational, work, and relational facets. Nevertheless, most existing scales assess these domains separately. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and validate an integrated short-form scale by consolidating two existing Korean employee engagement scales (the performance-oriented and the relationship-oriented scales), proposing a single instrument that encompasses relational, organizational, and work dimensions. Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) was used to integrate and reduce a total of 50 items from the two existing scales into 25 items. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and other analyses confirmed reliability and validity. The resulting ROWEE (Relationship-Organization-Work Employee Engagement) scale consists of 25 items across seven subfactors: organizational engagement, relationship cognition, relationship emotion, relationship behavior, job cognition, job emotion, and job behavior. The ROWEE scale demonstrated predictive validity equivalent to or better than that of the original scales while reducing respondent burden by more than half, supporting its use for assessing employee engagement in the Korean workplace context. The ROWEE scale may guide strategic HRD interventions and help organizations strengthen key outcomes through evidence-based employee development and management.

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