The construct validation of an instrument designed to assess organisational socialisation

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

 
 
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Title The construct validation of an instrument designed to assess organisational socialisation
 
Creator Mudurai, Michelle Olckers, Chantal Buys, Michiel
 
Subject Industrial and organisational Psychology tactics; reliabilities; relationships; workplace; culture
Description The aim of this study was to establish the construct validity of an instrument for assessing organisational socialisation. A purposive sample of 170 respondents completed the socialisation instrument. Scale reliabilities and a confrmatory factor analysis confrmed six constructs (History, Language, Politics, People, Organisational Goals and Values, and Performance Profciency) as measures of this domain. The signifcance of the fndings of this study is that from a South African perspective, the socialisation instrument can be useful in measuring organisational socialisation. This instrument can also be valuable in assessing the effectiveness of the socialisation tactics used by organisations.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2008-04-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Determining construct validity of a questionnaire for the SA context using Confirmatory Factor analysis and Structural equation modelling.
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajip.v34i1.413
 
Source SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 34, No 1 (2008); 1-9 2071-0763 0258-5200
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa — 170 respondents
Rights Copyright (c) 2008 Michelle Mudurai, Chantal Olckers, Michiel Buys https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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