Satisfaction with Organization Scale (SOS)

Abstract Organizational interventions are emerging as a core service offered by many EAPs. This article discusses the revision of an existing measure of life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale) to measure employees' perceptions of satisfaction with their work organization. The revised instrument (Satisfaction with Organization Scale) appears to be useful as part of the process of conducting organizational interventions within EAP settings as a way to measure changes in employee perceptions over time. Data were collected as part of three interventions requested by organizations that have contracts with an EAP in West Texas. Results suggest that the revised instrument has evidence of reliability and validity. The benefits of using such an instrument as part of organizational interventions, the need for further testing of the new measure (e.g., validity analyses and norming), and the call for the development and revision of additional measures are discussed.