Development of Organizational Change Questionnaire

Abstract

Organizational change, in the present study has been conceptualized as changes which happen within an organization as a response to internal and external environmental changes. By taking this perspective into account, this article aims at developing a questionnaire to measure the employees' perception of change in the organization. This was achieved by collecting primary data from 10 IT organizations. A pool of 52 [Part A (27) and Part B (25)] items was formulated and tested on a sample of randomly selected 213 executives from these 10 IT organizations. Reliability and validity of the scale were duly established. The final scale consists of 41 [Part A (20) and Part B (21)] items, with a 6-point Likert type format.

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