TY - JOUR

T1 - The assessment of organizational culture in cross-cultural settings:

T2 - Investigating the psychometric quality and cultural equivalence of three quantitative instruments

AU - Puppatz, Martin

AU - Burmeister, Anne

AU - Deller, Jürgen

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

PY - 2017/3/1

Y1 - 2017/3/1

N2 - This study tested the psychometric quality and cultural equivalence of the German versions of three instruments for measuring organizational culture: the Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS), the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP), and the Global leadership & organizational behavior effectiveness survey (GLOBE). Using an organizational sample from the banking industry, we analyzed the metric equivalence (by means of assessing the psychometric quality), the conceptual equivalence (by means of assessing the construct validity) as well as the linguistic and functional equivalence of the three instruments. The results indicate that the psychometric properties and the equivalence of the DOCS and the OCP can be summarized as satisfactory. In contrast, reliability indices of the GLOBE scales were far below recommended thresholds and results regarding its construct validity were unsatisfying. Conceptual equivalence could therefore not be assumed. Avenues for future research and implications for practitioners are discussed. In addition, the authors created and tested a German translation of the OCP scales and an adapted version of the German DOCS scales.

AB - This study tested the psychometric quality and cultural equivalence of the German versions of three instruments for measuring organizational culture: the Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS), the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP), and the Global leadership & organizational behavior effectiveness survey (GLOBE). Using an organizational sample from the banking industry, we analyzed the metric equivalence (by means of assessing the psychometric quality), the conceptual equivalence (by means of assessing the construct validity) as well as the linguistic and functional equivalence of the three instruments. The results indicate that the psychometric properties and the equivalence of the DOCS and the OCP can be summarized as satisfactory. In contrast, reliability indices of the GLOBE scales were far below recommended thresholds and results regarding its construct validity were unsatisfying. Conceptual equivalence could therefore not be assumed. Avenues for future research and implications for practitioners are discussed. In addition, the authors created and tested a German translation of the OCP scales and an adapted version of the German DOCS scales.

KW - Business psychology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011867004&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/ijsa.12159

DO - 10.1111/ijsa.12159

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 25

SP - 43

EP - 60

JO - International Journal of Selection and Assessment

JF - International Journal of Selection and Assessment

SN - 0965-075X

IS - 1

ER -