Development of Organizational Culture Scale

The study aimed to develop an indigenous scale to measure organizational culture and to establish its psychometric properties. The first phase involved developing items for the scale and conducting a pilot study. Initially, 73 items were generated through an in-depth review of the literature with subscales identified as adaptability, strategy, commitment, engagement, and ethics. Two subject experts and Two language experts were approached for Content Validity analysis after which 45 items were extracted, excluding twenty-eight items. A pilot study was then carried out on 437 working individuals from different organizations in Pakistan. In the second phase, 32 items were finalized after evaluating the descriptive statistics, total correlation, exploratory factor analysis, and item correlation. This phase involved testing the reliability of the scale for which it was administered to 110 respondents. The psychometric properties were found to be satisfactory. For the final phase, the validity was measured by administering the scale on 100 working individuals. The convergent and divergent validity of the scale was evaluated by comparing the scores obtained from OCS with the Employee Engagement Scale (Wilson, K., 2009) and Counterproductive Work Behavior (Spector et al., 2006). As a result, the Organizational Culture Scale was developed which researchers and HR professionals can use to assess the overall culture of an organization.