The measurement of general satisfaction was the aim of the Job in General
Scale (Ironson, Smith, Brannick, Gibson, & Paul, 1989). This 18-item inventory
is designed to give an overall job satisfaction score rather than scores for individual
facets. The authors believe that an overall assessment of satisfaction is better
than a sum of the parts (Spector, 1997). Other inventories include the Job Satisfaction
Survey (Spector, 1985) and a subscale set of the Michigan Organizational
Assessment Questionnaire (Cammann, Fichman, Jenkins, & Klesh, 1979).