Organizational Orientations Scale (OOS)

I generally try my best to do what an organization I work for wants me to do.

If I had the choice, I would take a promotion over the acceptance of my peers any time.

One of my goals is to get a good job and excel at it.

Eventually, I would like to be the "big boss" in an organization.

I firmly believe that if I work hard enough, one day I will be right up at the top.

I am good at my job and I love it.

Most of all, I really want to be recognized for the excellent work I do.

I think moving up in an organization is not worth all the work you have to do.

Sometimes I think I am a "workaholic."

I want a job where what I do really counts for something.

Everyone tells me I am a really good worker.

I want work which has a lot of intangible rewards.

Ordinarily, I feel good about what I have accomplished when I am done with my day's work.

I would be willing to work hard to be the top person in an organization.

Since I am really good at what I do, I will move up in the organization.

What I want most in a job is the possibility of really doing something important.

Any job worth doing is worth doing as well as I can.

I am a very creative worker.

Other than a paycheck, the organizations I have worked for have had little to offer me.

The product/service produced by organizations where I have worked are of very low quality.

I have generally been quite satisfied with jobs I have had.

The organizations I have worked for couldn't care less whether I live or die--and I feel the same way about them.

I really dislike the rules and regulations I am forced to live with in organizations.

I am usually unhappy wherever I work.

Everywhere I have worked, I have had an incompetent supervisor.

Wherever I work, I wish I were working somewhere, almost anywhere, else than where I am.

The procedures and regulations of organizations I have worked for have generally been quite reasonable.

I find it difficult to adapt to the demands of most organizations.

Generally, I don't like the rules that organizations make me follow.

I don't really like most of the people I have worked with.

I have worked for really good organizations.

Most organizations have unreasonable expectations for workers like me.

Most of the time, a halfhearted effort is all I feel I need to give in a job.

I really hate most organizations I have worked for.

One supervisor is about like any other, a pain in the backside.

What I want most in a job is to be left alone.

Frankly, I am smarter than most of the people I have worked for.

I have been unhappy just about everywhere I have worked.

My life begins when I get off work.

If I were offered a job that paid better, I would take it in a "New York Minute."

A job is a job--everyone has to work somewhere.

I am generally indifferent to where I work. One job is about the same as another.

Generally, I just do as much as is required by my job.

Since I am entitled to them, I take all of my sick days whether I am sick or not.

I don't much care where I work, so long as the pay is good.

When work is over, life begins.

One job is pretty much like any other job.

If I found out the organization I worked for was in trouble, I would quickly look for a job in another organization.

Work is something I have to do, not something I want to do.

When it comes to choosing a job, "show me the money!"