Development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring perceived political considerations in performance appraisal

✍ Scribed by Aharon Tziner; Gary P. Latham; Bruce S. Price; Robert Haccoun

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 792 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3796
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199603)17:2<179::aid-job740>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

A 25-item scoring instrument was developed to measure perceptions of the extent to which performance appraisals are affected by organizational politics. The survey was administered to 157 francophone managers. A factor analysis revealed that the perceptions of the extent to which political considerations affect the appraisal an employee receives can be sensibly interpreted in terms of a single general factor. The internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the instrument was high. Moderate support was found for the instrument's convergent and discriminant validity.

' The English version of the questionnaire was translated into French using the back-translation method.

' We thought that organizational commitment would not correlate with our measure of pcwc,priorrs of political behavior in appraisal, hut it did. In retrospect, we speculate that this might be because raters committed to the organization were perceived as less likely to be inclined to invoke organizational politics in their Performance appraisals. Exploration of this possibility is beyond the scope of this paper, and is therefore left for future research.