The Perception of Change Strategy Scale: Validating the Measure
Research in Organizational Change and Development
ISBN: 978-1-78635-360-3, eISBN: 978-1-78635-359-7
Publication date: 21 July 2016
Abstract
The Perception of Change Strategy Scale (PCS) measures an individual’s perception of the change strategies being used by change agents during an organizational change. To ground the reader in the tool’s history, two published studies are briefly discussed: one in which the measure was developed and a second in which the tool’s reliability was appraised. In a third study presented here a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the theoretical framework and to select the best fitting model amongst several competing models of the constructs identified in the PCS. The results support a three-factor model as the best fit for a change strategy framework based on Chin and Benne’s (1961) three-part conceptualization for leading change: empirical-rational, power-coercive, and normative-re-educative.
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Citation
Szabla, D.B., Dardick, W. and Devlin, J.A. (2016), "The Perception of Change Strategy Scale: Validating the Measure", Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 83-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620160000024004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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