A psychometric assessment of the Irish Civil Service employee engagement scale
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description: This study takes a quantitative approach with the aim to understand whether the employee engagement scale applied in the Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey (CSEES) is an appropriate psychometric measure of employee engagement in the Irish Civil Service. For the purposes of this study, an appropriate employee engagement scale is defined as one that is psychometrically valid, reliable and robust and can provide meaningful quantitative insights into the Irish Civil Service population. The analysis in this study provides insights into psychometric properties of the CSEES employee engagement scale are investigated through the application of several robust psychometric statistical methods. The descriptive statistics and antecedent analysis are reviewed and assessed for the capacity to provide meaningful insights for the Irish Civil Service. The primary focus of the study is the psychometric analyses of the CSEES employee engagement measure. and the antecedents of employee engagement in the Irish Civil Service by grade, gender, and length of service. The CSEES is a census survey with over 60,000 responses across the three iterations of the survey that are available for research purposes. The employee engagement scale used within the CSEES is a modified form of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004). Psychometric and statistical methods applied are measures of association including Pearson’s correlation coefficients, measures of internal consistency including Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s omega and Fornell- Larcker criterion, measures of dimensionality and structure including exploratory and confirmatory analysis and measures of cumulative modelling including multilinear regression analysis, item response theory and differential item functioning. The amount of research of employee engagement within the public sector (Vigoda-Gadot et al., 2013) and the psychometric research of employee engagement scales across all sectors, both at an organis…
abstract: This study takes a quantitative approach with the aim to understand whether the employee engagement scale applied in the Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey (CSEES) is an appropriate psychometric measure of employee engagement in the Irish Civil Service. For the purposes of this study, an appropriate employee engagement scale is defined as one that is psychometrically valid, reliable and robust and can provide meaningful quantitative insights into the Irish Civil Service population. The analysis in this study provides insights into psychometric properties of the CSEES employee engagement scale are investigated through the application of several robust psychometric statistical methods. The descriptive statistics and antecedent analysis are reviewed and assessed for the capacity to provide meaningful insights for the Irish Civil Service. The primary focus of the study is the psychometric analyses of the CSEES employee engagement measure. and the antecedents of employee engagement in the Irish Civil Service by grade, gender, and length of service. The CSEES is a census survey with over 60,000 responses across the three iterations of the survey that are available for research purposes. The employee engagement scale used within the CSEES is a modified form of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004). Psychometric and statistical methods applied are measures of association including Pearson’s correlation coefficients, measures of internal consistency including Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s omega and Fornell- Larcker criterion, measures of dimensionality and structure including exploratory and confirmatory analysis and measures of cumulative modelling including multilinear regression analysis, item response theory and differential item functioning. The amount of research of employee engagement within the public sector (Vigoda-Gadot et al., 2013) and the psychometric research of employee engagement scales across all sectors, both at an organis…
author: Crilly, Sarah
language: en
keywords: Work engagement, Employee engagement, Civil service, Psychometric analysis, Item response theory, Factor analysis
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
date published: 2025
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:47:19Z
provider: University College Cork
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University College Cork

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