WVI

Work Values Inventory

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Purpose

Assesses workplace values

Authors

Melissa A. Messer, MHS, and Jennifer A. Greene, MSPH

Administration Formats

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Additional Details

Help Your Clients Discover a Job that is a Good Fit for Their Work Values

The WVI is a self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted measure of six workplace values. It is a career exploration and job selection tool with 61 questions that helps career counselors and human resource professionals.

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Features and benefits

  • Features 61 questions grouped by the work value they measure.
  • Self-paced and self-scored.
  • Testing takes just 10 minutes.
  • Helps career counselors assist clients in learning more about themselves to find a job that is a good fit for their work values.
  • Assists human resource personnel in screening potential job candidates to find the right fit for a particular position and a good fit within the organizational culture.
  • Based on and tied to the Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET).
  • Captures the O*NET's six identified work values: Achievement, Independence, Support, Relationships, Working Conditions, and Recognition.
  • The WVI Occupations Index lists more than 1,300 jobs according to work value and required education level.
  • Administer individually or in a group setting.
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Age Range 18 years to 70 years
Admin Time 10 minutes
Qualification Level A

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FAQs

What is the technical information for the WVI?

Test structure

  • Offers a Score Summary sheet designed for use by a professional working with clients/job applicants.
  • Yields a score for each of the six work values.
  • The WVI Assessment Booklet includes sections that describe each work value and facet in detail, provide example occupations from the Occupations Index, and offer ways to obtain more information.
  • Is an A-level product, no special training is required to administer or score.

Technical information

  • Standardization sample (N = 526) included employees across eight common O*NET job families who had been in their current positions for at least a year.
  • Shows a strong positive relationship with the Working Styles Assessment™ (WSA™).
  • Test–retest reliability coefficients ranged from .82 to .95 on the work value scales over a period of 1 to 5 weeks.
  • Construct validity compared incumbent O*NET work value ratings to the three highest work values of the WVI standardization sample by job families; 96.2 to 100% of occupations matched one or more of the average work values of each job family and 55.6 to 87.5% matched on two work values.