DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL PAROCHIALISM SCALE

Year 2022, , 184 - 196, 30.09.2022

Murat Ozpehlıvan

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2022.1630

Abstract

Purpose- The aim of this study is to examine the concept of organizational parochialism, which is one of the factors that determine the present
and future of organizations, and to apply validity and reliability tests by developing a scale that is thought to measure this concept.
Methodology- Our research was applied to 272 companies operating in the textile sector and the results were analysed in the SPSS.25 program.
As a result of detailed statistical analyses, the validity and reliability tests of the developed scale were completed and it was determined that the
scale statistically measures the concept of organizational parochialism.
Findings- According to the results of the research, it has been seen that the concept of organizational parochialism is divided into 5 different subdimensions with 25 items as namely business management, financial management, competitiveness, employment management and production
management.
Conclusion- In today's intensely competitive environment, businesses focus on the present and they may miss the possible risks of the future. In
addition to the possible risks, it is also possible for the organizations to make predictions about the future, to catch potential opportunities in a
timely manner and to benefit the organization from them. It is possible to say that businesses that cannot evaluate such risks and opportunities
are narrow-minded, especially in terms of management manner. In this study, a scale measuring the concept of organizational parochialism and
its sub-dimensions, which was determined that have not been researched before in social sciences as a result of the literature review, was
developed. In our research, it is possible to indicate that the concept has been confirmed by both the data obtained from the organizational
behaviour literature and the statistical data on its measurement.

Keywords

Organizational parochialism, narrow-mindedness, administrative shallowness, parochialism scale, projection determination

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