Development of Organizational Sustainability Scale

Gözde SEZEN GÜLTEKİN, (Sakarya Üniversitesi, Eğitim Yönetim ve Denetim, Sakarya, Türkiye)
Türkan ARGON (Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Eğitim İdari Denetim Planlama ve Ekonomi, Bolu, Türkiye)
Sakarya University Journal of Education
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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 507 - 531 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.19126/suje.757529 İndeks Tarihi: 15-06-2021

Development of Organizational Sustainability Scale

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The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement toolmeasuring organizational sustainability. In this respect, firstly, an item pool wasformed and subsequentlycontent validity rates, content validity criteria and contentvalidity indices were calculated based on the experts. It was seen that theOrganizational Sustainability Scale provided content validity with 40 items and 5sub-dimensions in total. For the factorial validity of the scale, first, exploratory(EFA) and then confirmatory (CFA) factor analyses were performed in the separatesample groups. As result, the model established in 39 items and five sub-dimensionshad an excellent and acceptable level of fit indexes. Also, it was found that bothconvergence validity and discriminant validity were achieved in all sub-dimensionsFinally, the Cronbach alpha and composite reliability of the scale were examined. Inthis context, the reliability of the scale was proved as a result of all values beingexcellent and close to perfect. In this context, it was determined that theOrganizational Sustainability Scale is a valid and reliable scale consisting of 39 itemsin 5-point Likert type and five sub-dimensions which are environmentalsustainability, cultural sustainability, social sustainability, economic sustainabilityand administrative sustainability.
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