As of October 12, 2020, Paula Stamps, Ph.D. and Market Street Research, Inc. have decided to forgo charging for the IWS Questionnaire and IWS Scoring manual. Hereafter, it may be downloaded from Market Street Research’s website, free of charge.

The purpose of this study was to apply the Rasch model to examine the adequacy of Stamps's Index of Work Satisfaction for measuring nurses' job satisfaction cross‐culturally and to determine the validity and reliability of IWS using the Rasch criteria.

Oct 1, 2004 · Two studies were conducted to adapt the Stamps Index of Work Satisfaction (1997b) to measure work satisfaction at the patient care unit level for use by the National Database of Nursing Quality...

Dec 9, 2020 · Stamps, Paula L. Publication date 1986 Topics Nurses -- Job satisfaction -- Measurement, Index of Work Satisfaction, Job enrichment, Travail -- Enrichissement, Infirmières, Infirmières -- Satisfaction au travail, Job Satisfaction, Nursing Staff, Hospital -- psychology, Psychological Tests

The current descriptive study uses the data related to part B of Stamps (1997) IWS tool to determine the adequacy of the IWS tool in measuring job satisfaction cross-culturally, by applying the Rasch model. The IWS contains 44 items with six components of pay, autonomy, task require-

Low JS for professional status, for pay, and for work organization policies, age ≥40 years, part-time schedule are related to higher ITL the nursing profession. The research permitted detection of various predictors of different kinds of ITL, enhancing …

Job enrichment, decreased turnover, cost savings, greater productivity, and improved patient care--all depend on employee satisfaction. Paula Stamps's Index of Work Satisfaction is one of the best-known and most widely used tools to measure nurses' response to their work.

Mar 9, 2017 · The Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS) (Stamps, 1997), was designed to measure specific factors of nurses' job satisfaction and was emailed to all full and part time ADN faculty (n=9,402) with email addresses identified on their institution's website.