Organizational Culture and Climate

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Work preferences

• The Comparative Emphasis Scale is available at Bruce Meglino's website. This measure has been validated in a number of samples and publications. The measured dimensions are fairness, achievement, concern for others, and honesty. http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moore/mgmt/profiles/meglino.htm

Safety

• Hecker, S., Gibbons, W., & Barsotti, A. (2000). Best practices sampling: A participatory approach to improve construction safety performance. Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, 5, 683–686. Eight items to measure the organizational safety climate. Developed as part of a larger project being funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and conducted by the Labor Education and Resource Center at the University of Oregon.
  • Used in Probst, Tahira M.; Brubaker, Ty L.; Barsotti, Anthony. (2008). Organizational injury rate underreporting: The moderating effect of organizational safety climate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93:5, 1147-1154. Cronbach's alpha=.85.
• Neal, A., & Griffin, M. A. (2006). A study of the lagged relationships among safety climate, safety motivation, safety behavior, and accidents at the individual and group levels. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(4), 946–953. Safety motivation scales
  • Used in Newnam, Sharon; Griffin, Mark A.; Mason, Claire. 2008. Safety in work vehicles: A multilevel study linking safety values and individual predictors to work-related driving crashes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(3):632-644.
• Griffin, M. A., & Neal, A. (2000). Perceptions of safety at work: A framework for linking safety climate to safety performance, knowledge and motivation. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(3), 347–358. 3 items to measure perception value placed on safety. Find the measure here [1]
  • Used in Newnam, Sharon; Griffin, Mark A.; Mason, Claire. 2008. Safety in work vehicles: A multilevel study linking safety values and individual predictors to work-related driving crashes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(3):632-644. Used to measure both driver perception of managerial safety value and managerial perception of organizational safety value.

See also Job Characteristics