Invited Reaction: Development and Exploratory Validation of an Organizational Efficacy Scale

Autor/in	Decker, Carol A.
Titel	Invited Reaction: Development and Exploratory Validation of an Organizational Efficacy Scale
Quelle	In: Human Resource Development Quarterly, 21 (2010) 3, S.253-255 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1044-8004
DOI	10.1002/hrdq.20051
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Self Efficacy; Familiarity; Measures (Individuals); Factor Analysis; Human Resources; Validity; Organizational Effectiveness; Business; Sampling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Messdaten; Faktorenanalyse; Humankapital; Gültigkeit; Unternehmenserfolg; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft
Abstract	This paper presents the author's comments on James G. Bohn's article "Development and Exploratory Validation of an Organizational Efficacy Scale". In his article, Bohn has captured a deficiency, as he quotes, of "over two decades" in the human resource development (HRD) field. Since no scale has been designed specifically to measure efficacy at the organizational level, Bohn developed an instrument to assess organizational efficacy. The organizational efficacy tool is an extension of collective efficacy measures, and narrows collective efficacy to specific business populations. The author asserts that the utility of the organizational efficacy is far reaching in that organizations have many forms and bases for doing business, and thus the scale developed can be used to examine a variety of businesses--from the smallest art museum to the largest airplane manufacturer. There is obvious familiarity with factor analysis and scale development in Bohn's article, and the procedures used were sufficient for proving the results and obtaining the essential 17 items for measuring organizational efficacy. The author agrees that such a scale for measuring organizational efficacy can be used with confidence regardless of the recognized limitations Bohn conveys, such as inconsistent sampling. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10