Assessing Organizational Behaviors A Critical Analysis of Measuring Instruments

This book fills a gap in international literature by providing critical reviews on variables of organizational behavior and the main psychological instruments developed to measure them. Measuring instruments developed with theoretical and methodological rigor in the field of Organizational and Work Psychology can contribute to the development of diagnostic analyses to enable organizations to implement the evidence-based changes required for their survival. These changes demand diagnoses based on precise assessments of organizational and individual variables, but many times the professionals responsible for conducting these assessments are not sure of what is the best measuring instrument available. This book is intended to serve as a guide to these professionals.

The volume is divided in two parts. The first part brings together chapters dedicated to the following micro-organizational variables: Job Crafting, reactions to organizational change, Psychological Wellbeing at Work, Bridge Employment Assessment in the Work-Retirement Transition, Resilience at Work, and Leadership in Organizations. The second part presents the state-of-the-art of research on the following macro-organizational constructs:  Quality of Life at Work, Organizational Climate for Creativity, Values and Organizations, Assessments of Organizational Support, and Contributions by Social Networks Analysis and Organizational Effectiveness. The last chapter presents a critical discussion about the nature and future of organization behavior measuring.

Assessing Organizational Behaviors: A Critical Analysis of Measuring Instruments is intended to help market professionals select the diagnostic instruments that best fit into their organizational reality in order to correctly assess organizational behavior. The book will also be of interest to researchers and students in the field of Organizational and Work Psychology as it provides comprehensive overviews of a wide range of instruments developed to measure different variables of organizational behavior.

1.Job crafting measures.- 2.Employee reactions to organizational change: the main models and measures.- 3.Psychological Well-Being at Work Measures.- 4.Bridge Employment Assessment Measures in the Work-Retirement Transition.- 5.Resilience at work: research itineraries, a critical review of measures and a proposal for measurement of the construct for organizational diagnosis.- 6.Leadership in Organizations: state-of-the-art with emphasis on measurement instruments.- 7.Quality of life at work: concepts, models and measures.- 8.Creativity Climate: An Analysis of Measurement Scales.- 9.Values in Organizations: Theory, measurement, and theoretical reflections.- 10.Evaluation tools of Social Support at Work and contributions of Social Networks Analysis.- 11.Organizational Effectiveness: a critical review of the proposals for conceptualization and measurement of the construct.- 12.The next challenges for measuring organizational behavior constructs.

Magno Oliveira Macambira is a professor at the State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil, and develops studies on organizational behavior and social network analysis in work context. He holds a PHD in psychology from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and is a member of the Working Group on Organizational Culture and Health at Work of the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP).

Helenides Mendonça is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Brasília, Brazil, and is a post-doctoral fellow at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. Her main line of research is in psychosocial processes at work, with a priority focus on the following themes: culture and organizational justice, workers’ health, coping and well-being at work.

Maria das Graças Torres Paz is a professor in the Social, Work and Organizational Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Brasília, Brazil, and develops her teaching, research and consultancy activities in organizational and work psychology, in the following major lines: cultural profile of organizations, organizational, group and individual power, organizational justice and personal well-being in organizations, relating the variables associated to the referenced lines with the organizational management practices. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and has developed postdoctoral studies at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.