Set of Organizational-Climate Measures: Internal Consistency, Factor Structure, and Predictive Power

摘要

A major obstacle to understanding organizational behavior is the lack of highly reliable instruments to assess the principal dimensions of an organization's climate. The analysis reported here was undertaken to improve the precision of a set of organizational-climate measures grounded on a new theoretical-conceptual model of human and organizational effectiveness, and to provide a related taxonomy of climate dimensions. The data base for the analysis consisted of approximately 1,000 U.S. Air Force scientist-engineers working in five separate Government research and development organizations. Internal consistency analysis and factor analysis were used to assess reliability and dimensional purity, while correlational analysis was used to evaluate relations with selected performance and job-satisfaction criteria. The organizational-climate measures demonstrated promising psychometric characteristics. Generally high reliabilities (.80 to .95), satisfactory factor structure, and encouraging validities provide a sound foundation for further refinement.