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Introduction
Inventory Presentation:
By: Naureen Ashraf
BS Program (Evening Batch 2022)

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• Name: Work Values Inventory™(WVI™)

• Purpose: It is a career exploration and job selection tool that helps career counsellors and
human resource professionals.
• Developers: Melissa A. Messer and Jennifer A. Greene

• Psychometrics:
• Reliability: Test–retest reliability coefficients ranged from .82 to .95 on the work value
scales over a period of 1 to 5 weeks.
• Validity: 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.
• Population: Standardization sample (N= 526, 49.8 F, 50.02 M) includes employees across
eight common O*NET job families who had been in their current positions for at least a
year. Age range from 18 to 70 years with a Mean age of 35.63 years
• Shows a strong positive relationship with the Working Styles Assessment™ (WSA™).
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• Administration: The WVI is a self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted measure of six

workplace values.
• Can be Administered using paper and pencil in 10 minutes.
Can be administered both individually or in a group setting.

Inventory Trip
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• Qualification level A (handouts given).

• Test structure
• Features 61 questions grouped by the work value they measure.
• Self-paced and self-scored.
• 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.
• Testing takes just 10 minutes.
• As an A-level product, no special training is required to administer or score.

• Application
• Career Counselling
• Employment Selection

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WVI Kit Includes… 6 Scales with 2 Facets each (10 items in each scale): 61 Items
3 Components:
60 Scored
1. Assessment Booklet (Can be used by individuals)
1. WVI Items (61 items)
2. Recording WVI Scores
3. What Are Work Values?
4. Next Steps
5. Resources for Further Explorations
2. Occupation Index (A list of more than 1300 occupations, that
can be used by individuals, and a copy should be given to them
with the booklet.)
3. Score Summary Sheet (A 2-sided sheet for organizing the work
values of the client / job seeker. It can be used by professionals
ONLY who are working with clients / job applicants)

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Scoring Example
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Tied Scores
• 2 or 3 tied work values: If there are 2-3
work values with tied scores / same scores
then list them and prioritise them as per
score.
• 4 or more tied work vales: if 4 or more are
having tied work values then do not order
them instead instruct test user to review
their responses and then rescore the
responses
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• In the example on the left the
work value ACHIEVEMENT has a
score of 21
• Strongest / Top 3 scoring work
values will be taken out and
checked against the WVI
occupation index.
• Client should be asked to
complete the missing items (if
any), if more than 1 items then
scale can’t be scored.
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Interpretations
• Step 1: Assessing Validity
• Item 61 should be examined
• Missing items should be examined
• Review booklet for any unusual patterns
• Step 2: Interpreting Scores
• Level 1: Examining total score of each scale / work value
• Level 2: Examining each facet of the scale / work value
• Level 3: Summarizing Results & Identifying the top work values
• By creating a list of work values ordered from highest-scoring to lowest scoring
• By examining the percentile associated with scale scores (rather than the top 3 work
values)
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Additional Diagnostic Indicators
Profile Elevation
• Refers to over all endorsement and individual indicates across all work values
• Its obtained by adding the scale scores for each of the six work values
• Scores can range from 0-180 ( mean = 139.29 SD = 26.54)
Differentiation
• Refers to the level of DISTINCTIVENESS OF A PERSONALITY or OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE
• Calculated by Subtracting the lowest score from the highest score
• Score can range from 0-30 points
Commonness
• Refers to the FREQUENCY WITH WHICH COMBINATIONS OF TOP 3 WORK VALUES ARE
OBSERVED IN PARTICULAR SAMPLE OF INDIVIDUALS
• Score can range from 0.20 to 2.00 percent, high and low scores are above and below this range.
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Overview
 Helps career counsellors assist clients in learning more about themselves to find a job that is a
good fit for their work values.
 Assists human resources personnel HRPs 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
(Occupational Information NetworkThe Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is a free online database that
contains hundreds of job definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals
to understand today's world of work in the United States).

• Captures the O*NET's six identified work values: Achievement, Independence, Support,
Relationships, Working Conditions, and Recognition (Consisting of just 36 items and taking less than 20
minutes to complete, the inventory scores into six work values identified most important by the U.S. Department of
Labor: achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support, and working conditions).

 The WVI provides Occupations Index, listing more than 1,300 jobs according to work value and
required education level.

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