ScholarOne - Fun, work, and everything in between: Validation of the
Romanian version and longitudinal measurement invariance of the Playful
Work Design scale
- Consuela Tabirta,
- Delia Vîrgă
Abstract
As a proactive strategy, playful work design allows employees to use
ludic or agnostic play to handle hindrances or monotonous tasks. With
the help of fun and competition design, they can even transform those
tasks into productive work experiences. Drawing on the Job
Demands-Resources theory, we analyzed the psychometric properties of the
playful work design scale in three studies to adapt and validate the
scale for the Romanian population. In the first study, the confirmatory
factor analysis results indicated that the two-factor model based on 12
items has a good value of the fit indices. The second study
cross-validated the instrument with other constructs that measured
playfulness, personal initiative, meaning-making, task complexity, task
monotony, flow at work, engagement, and performance. The third study
consisted of a longitudinal invariance analysis on the Romanian version
of the playful work design scale applied at two different moments.
Altogether, the results demonstrate the validity of the Romanian version
of this scale, which can be used in organizations to evaluate playful
work design as a proactive individual strategy.24 Jan 2024Submitted to Advance 05 Apr 2024Published in Advance