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    Validation of the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument

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    Authors
    Heritage, Brody
    Pollock, Clare
    Roberts, Lynne
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Heritage, Brody and Pollock, Clare and Roberts, Lynne. 2014. Validation of the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument. PLoS ONE. 9 (3): e92879.
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    PLoS ONE
    DOI
    10.1371/journal.pone.0092879
    ISSN
    19326203
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35308
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Organizational culture is a commonly studied area in industrial/organizational psychology due to its important role in workplace behaviour, cognitions, and outcomes. Jung et al.'s [1] review of the psychometric properties of organizational culture measurement instruments noted many instruments have limited validation data despite frequent use in both theoretical and applied situations. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) has had conflicting data regarding its psychometric properties, particularly regarding its factor structure. Our study examined the factor structure and criterion validity of the OCAI using robust analysis methods on data gathered from 328 (females = 226, males = 102) Australian employees. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a four factor structure of the OCAI for both ideal and current organizational culture perspectives. Current organizational culture data demonstrated expected reciprocally-opposed relationships between three of the four OCAI factors and the outcome variable of job satisfaction but ideal culture data did not, thus indicating possible weak criterion validity when the OCAI is used to assess ideal culture. Based on the mixed evidence regarding the measure's properties, further examination of the factor structure and broad validity of the measure is encouraged.

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