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ERIC Number: EJ899773
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1044-8004
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Invited Reaction: Development and Exploratory Validation of an Organizational Efficacy Scale
Decker, Carol A.
Human Resource Development Quarterly, v21 n3 p253-255 Fall 2010
This paper presents the author's comments on James G. Bohn's article "Development and Exploratory Validation of an Organizational Efficacy Scale". In his article, Bohn has captured a deficiency, as he quotes, of "over two decades" in the human resource development (HRD) field. Since no scale has been designed specifically to measure efficacy at the organizational level, Bohn developed an instrument to assess organizational efficacy. The organizational efficacy tool is an extension of collective efficacy measures, and narrows collective efficacy to specific business populations. The author asserts that the utility of the organizational efficacy is far reaching in that organizations have many forms and bases for doing business, and thus the scale developed can be used to examine a variety of businesses--from the smallest art museum to the largest airplane manufacturer. There is obvious familiarity with factor analysis and scale development in Bohn's article, and the procedures used were sufficient for proving the results and obtaining the essential 17 items for measuring organizational efficacy. The author agrees that such a scale for measuring organizational efficacy can be used with confidence regardless of the recognized limitations Bohn conveys, such as inconsistent sampling.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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