Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Psychological and Objective Indices of Organizational Climate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13657173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Heller (Illinois Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Stephen J Guastello (0000-0003-1059-7341, Illinois Institute of Technology), Morris Aderman (Illinois Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-195 |
| Publication date | 1982-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1982.51.1.183 |
| OpenAlex | W2034381567 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
This study investigated the interrelationships among psychological and objective indices of organizational climate, and five performance measures. Subjects were 251 brokers and salespeople from 32 real estate offices. The Organizational Climate and Practices Questionnaire, Agency Climate Questionnaire, and the Survey of Organizations were the perceptual measures used, constituting 17 scales in all. Objective measures were chosen to reflect similar content areas to the subjective scales. A multitrait-multimethod matrix showed convergent and discriminant validity for some of the perceptual measures. Contrary to common findings, however, a composite of measures that yielded such validity indicated negative relationships with some performance measures. A cluster analysis of perceptual measures resulted in six clusters, and scales from a particular instrument generally tended to cluster with scales from the same instrument before clustering with scales from another instrument. Perceptual and objective variable sets were also independently factor analyzed. Component scores of objective measures accounted for more performance variance than perceptual measures. A number of problems and new directions for climate research were delineated
Cluster (spacecraft · Convergent validity · Developmental psychology · Discriminant validity · Geography · Organisation climate · Perception · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio · Variance (accounting · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
Managerial behavior, performance, and effectiveness
Psychological climate
Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function
Organizational climate
Organization Size and Member Participation
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
Properties of organization structure in relation to job attitudes and job behavior
Estimating coefficients in linear models
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |