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An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace
Dissertation (MCom (Human Resource Management))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/31213 An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace willie.vantonder@up.ac.za Ms C Olckers Van Tonder, Willem Jacobus Petrus UCTD Organisational climate Structural equation modelling (SEM) Organisational construct validity Dissertation (MCom (Human Resource Management))--University of Pretoria, 2011. To obtain valid and reliable research findings it is important to validate one’s measuring instrument with specific reference to the linguistic and cultural context in which it is to be used. This entails determining that items of the measurement instrument load significantly on the different constructs, and establishing the psychometric properties of the instrument. The purpose is to decrease or eliminate measurement errors, which detract from the validity of research findings. The aim of this study was to perform both an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis study on the Organisational Climate Measure Questionnaire (OCM), developed by Patterson and colleagues, to assess constructs and the model fit of the data within the Belgian context. Exploratory factor analysis was employed as part of the process to uncover the underlying structure of the relatively large set of variables, while confirmatory factor analysis was employed to assess the construct validity of the questionnaire, to pinpoint areas of weakness and to provide a foundation for further research. The OCM was administered to a sample of 301 participants in the Belgian manufacturing sector, drawn by means of convenient sampling. The study resulted in a final ten-factor model with 44 items, and the fit indices indicated that the data reflected a reasonable model fit. The fit indices displayed the following: CFI = .941, NNFI = .935 and the NFI = .840. The reliability scales for the ten factors ranged between .797 and .915. Human Resource Management MCom (Human Resource Management) restricted 2013-09-09T12:08:14Z 2011-09-20 2013-09-09T12:08:14Z 2011-09-13 2011-09-20 2011-08-29 Dissertation Van Tonder, WJP 2011 An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace, MCom dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08292011-105242 / > C11/9/2/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31213 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08292011-105242/ en © 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Organisational climate Structural equation modelling (SEM) Organisational construct validity An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title | An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title_full | An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title_fullStr | An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title_short | An exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the Belgian workplace |
| title_sort | exploratory study on the construct validation of the organisational climate measure in the belgian workplace |
| topic | UCTD Organisational climate Structural equation modelling (SEM) Organisational construct validity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31213 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08292011-105242/ |