A review of scale development practices in the study of organizations

Hinkin, Timothy R.

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“…Item generation is the first step in construct validation for a new measure, and the primary concern is content validity (Hinkin, 1995). In psychology, researchers have preferred personality adjectives to developing human personality factors, claiming adjectives originate in the observations of people, and have eventually become encoded in our language as trait descriptive terms (Peabody and Goldberg, 1989, p. 552).…”

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Ethical Character and Virtue of Organizations: An Empirical Assessment and Strategic Implications

2005

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Virtue ethics has often been regarded as complementary or laissez-faire ethics in solving business problems. This paper seeks conceptual and methodological improvements by developing a virtue character scale that will enable assessment of the link between organizational level virtue and organizational performance, financial or non-financial. Based upon three theoretical assumptions, multiple studies were conducted; the content analysis of 158 Fortune Global 500 firms' ethical values and a survey of 2548 customers and employees. Six dimensions of organizational virtue (Integrity, Empathy, Warmth, Courage, Conscientiousness and Zeal) are identified through confirmatory factor analysis, and validated against satisfaction measure. Strategic implications of virtue characters are discussed.

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Ethical Character and Virtue of Organizations: An Empirical Assessment and Strategic Implications

2005

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“…A fim de buscar evidências de validade para a versão brasileira da ELET, nós conduzimos dois estudos de corte transversal (Hinkin 1995(Hinkin , 1998. No estudo 1, foi testada a estrutura fatorial da Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho, a validade de construto (discriminante e preditiva) da ELET, relacionando suas dimensões à supervisão abusiva e à satisfação com o líder.…”

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Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho: Evidências de validade da versão brasileira

Almeida¹,

Hartog²,

Porto³

2018

Rev. Psicol., Organ.Trab.

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bResumo O tema da ética nas organizações tem ganhado relevo recentemente. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar a adaptação da Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). O primeiro estudo apresenta escala traduzida e o teste exploratório da estrutura fatorial com uma amostra de 222 profissionais. Apesar de apresentar 7 fatores (AFE), a estrutura encontrada não correspondente ao modelo original. No estudo 2 (amostra de 3804 profissionais), o ajuste do modelo com estrutura fatorial original da escala foi testado (AFC) e apresentou melhor ajuste que os demais. Para mensurar a validade de construto, a relação da liderança ética com a satisfação com o líder e a supervisão abusiva foi testada. O padrão de relação esperado foi confirmado, sendo encontrada relação positiva com satisfação e negativa com supervisão abusiva. Juntos, os resultados sugerem que a ELET apresenta evidências de validade de construto e boas propriedades psicométricas. Ethical Leadership at Work Scale: validity evidence for the Brazilian version AbstractEthical issues have been a growing concern to organizations. The main goal of this study was to develop a Brazilian version of the Ethical Leadership at Work Scale (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). The first study presents the translated measure and an exploratory study of the factor structure with a sample of 222 employees. Even though the best solution had 7 factors (EFA), the solution found did not correspond to the originally proposed one. In study 2 (sample of 3,804 employees), the goodness of fit of the original factor structure was assessed (CFA). The originally proposed model presented the best fit. In order to assess construct validity, the relationship of ethical leadership with satisfaction with the leader and abusive supervision was measured. Findings confirmed the hypothesized positive relation with satisfaction with the leader and a negative one with abusive supervision. Overall, findings suggest the scale presents good psychometric properties and construct validity. Escala de liderazgo ético en el trabajo: evidencias de validez de la versión brasileñaResumen El tema de la ética en las organizaciones ha ganado recientemente relevancia. El objetivo de ese trabajo fue realizar la adaptación de la Escala de Liderazgo Ético en el Trabajo (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). El primer estudio presenta el test exploratorio de la estructura factorial a partir de una muestra de 222 profesionales. A pesar de presentar 7 factores (AFE), la estructura hallada no corresponde al modelo original. En el estudio 2 (muestra de 3804 profesionales), el ajuste del modelo con la estructura factorial original de la escala fue probado (AFC) y presentó un mejor ajuste en comparación con otros modelos probados. Para medir la validez de constructo, la relación del liderazgo ético con la satisfacción con el líder y la supervisión abusiva fueron probadas. El patrón de relación esperado fue confirmado al encontrarse relación positiva con respecto a la satisfac...

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“…DIT but also general scale development guidelines offered by Hinkin (1995), who emphasized the need to assess reliability and construct validity of questionnaires developed for use in organizational research. Like the DIT, the MMJT contains six scenarios, and for each scenario participants are asked to make a decision, rate 12 issues that represent the stages of moral judgment, and rank the four most important issues.…”

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Assessing Managers’ Ethical Decision-making: An Objective Measure of Managerial Moral Judgment

2007

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Recent allegations of unethical decision-making by leaders in prominent business organizations have jeopardized the world’s confidence in American business. The purpose of this research was to develop a measure of managerial moral judgment that can be used in future research and managerial assessment. The measure was patterned after the Defining Issues Test, a widely used general measure of moral judgment. With content validity as the goal, we aimed to sample the domain of managerial ethical situations by establishing links to dimensions of managerial performance, as well as to the types of organizational justice issues managers encounter. Proposed scenarios were evaluated for realism by ethics officers and human resource managers. Results indicated that the new measure is reliable and correlates with a number of relevant variables in the hypothesized manner, demonstrating evidence of construct validity. Implications for future research and for human resources management are discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007moral judgment, measurement, ethical decision-making, manager,

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A review of scale development practices in the study of organizations

Cited by 251 publications

References 4 publications

Ethical Character and Virtue of Organizations: An Empirical Assessment and Strategic Implications

Ethical Character and Virtue of Organizations: An Empirical Assessment and Strategic Implications

Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho: Evidências de validade da versão brasileira

Assessing Managers’ Ethical Decision-making: An Objective Measure of Managerial Moral Judgment

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