Abstract
Employees in a manufacturing company and in a set of auto dealerships were asked to make global judgments about the distribution of influence in their organizations; they were also asked about influence in specific decision areas. An index based on reports of influence in specific areas shows better reliability among non-supervisory respondents than does the global influence measure. There is, however, poor agreement across organizational levels (supervisory versus non-supervisory) in responses to either influence measure.Neither measure shows clear superiority as a predictor of employee morale.
Keywords
Measure (data warehouse)Reliability (semiconductor)Index (typography)Set (abstract data type)PsychologyApplied psychologyKnowledge managementComputer scienceData mining
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Martin Patchen
(1963).
Alternative Questionnaire Approaches to the Measurement of Influence in Organizations.
American Journal of Sociology
, 69
(1)
, 41-52.
https://doi.org/10.1086/223509
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- 10.1086/223509