Development and validation of the work environment complexity scale for leaders
| Autor: | Giovanni B. Moneta, Gary Pheiffer, Teresa Bezler |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Measure (data warehouse) Knowledge management dewey650 business.industry Restructuring Computer science Strategy and Management 05 social sciences General Decision Sciences 050109 social psychology Work environment Work (electrical) Leadership studies Management of Technology and Innovation Scale (social sciences) 0502 economics and business Health care dewey150 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Construct (philosophy) 050203 business & management |
| ISSN: | 0953-4814 |
| Popis: | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a Work Environment Complexity (WEC) Scale for leaders. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, gathered in the course of major organisational restructuring, using samples from employees (n=305) and leaders (n=120) in two health care organisations. Findings The research developed and validated a scale of WEC for leaders with two factors: frequent change and events, and uncertain work demands. Comparisons between samples suggest diverging employee and leadership representations of WEC. Practical implications Being the first scale to measure the comprehensive construct of WEC, a foundation is laid to measure the amount of complexity in a leader’s work and the functioning of leaders with regards to WEC. Originality/value This paper contributes to leadership research and practice by clarifying the construct of WEC for leaders empirically and validating a bidimensional scale of WEC. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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