POLISH ADAPTATION OF L. ROSENSTIEL AND R. BOEGEL’S ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE DIAGNOSIS QUESTIONNAIRE

• Authors: Katarzyna Durniat
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The author would like to share her own adaptation of the questionnaire for diagnosing the organizational climate, developed by the German psychologists L. Rosenstiel and R. Boegel [1992]. The concept of the organizational climate, as understood by Rosenstiel and Boegel, emerges from the psychological field theory by Kurt Lewin. After the questionnaire was first brought to Poland by S. Witkowski and Z. Zalewski, it was translated into Polish and submitted to initial validation tests. Next, the preliminary translation of the tool was verified (consulted by psychologist J. Mesjasz) and in this very form the questionnaire has been validated, modified and adapted for Polish cultural circumstances by the author of this article (2005/6: N=367). Appropriate qualitative and quantitative analyses have been carried out, in particular a factor analysis of the entire questionnaire as well as its subscales, followed by a reliability analysis. To increase the accuracy and reliability of the subscales and to enhance the potential measurement precision of the tool, it was decided that the weakest items should be eliminated, which additionally improved the practical economy of the questionnaire as a tool. The reliability of the adapted questionnaire is satisfactory and ranges from 0.81 to 0.90 (measured with the Alfa Cronbach). The author of this paper has already used this version of the tool in two of her quantitative studies on the relation between mobbing and organizational climate (2005/6: N=367 and 2007/8: N= 465), which proved the tool to be an accurate diagnostic instrument providing results strongly and negatively correlated with the SDM mobbing diagnosis questionnaire ([by] K.Durniat). The adapted Rosenstiel and Boegel questionnaire can be utilized in a number of ways in research on the organizational climate in Polish companies and the potential interrelation between the organizational climate and other socio-organizational factors.

Keywords

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ADAPTATION OF QUESTIONNAIRE; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; DIAGNOSIS QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE

• Publisher: University of Wrocław, Institute of Psychology and Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
• Journal: Polish Journal of Applied Psychology
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-168

Contributors

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Katarzyna Durniat

• Department of Psychology, Faculty of Pedagogical and Historical Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Dawida 1, 50-527 Wroclaw