Measuring Ingratiatory Behaviors in Organizational Settings
Measures Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).
Sample items
- “Disagree on trivial or unimportant issues but agree on those issues in which he/she expects support from you”
- “Try to imitate such work behaviors of your supervisor as working late or occasionally working on weekends”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.56–0.79 across reported samples.
Sources
- Kumar and Beyerlein (1991)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Most important, these definitions distinguish the concept of organizational culture from organizational climate, which refers to more temporary attitudes, feelings, and perceptions on the part of individuals. Culture is an enduring, slow-changing core attribute of organizations;…”
— Diagnosing Changing Org Culturematch 48%
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— Social Psychology: A Very Short Introductionmatch 47%
“114. Xander M. Bezuijen, Karen van Dam, Peter T. van den Berg, and Henk Thierry, “How Leaders Stimulate Employee Learning: A Leader-Member Exchange Approach,” Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 83, no. 3 (2010): 673–693. Benjamin Blatt, Sharon Confessore, Gene…”
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Resources: Diagnosing Changing Org Culture · Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction · Work Rules! (Laszlo Bock)