Validation de l’échelle de mesure de la conscience de l’environnement d’affaires
Employee business awareness is defined as individual nonmanagerial employee realization, perception or knowledge of the employing organization’s business environment as demonstrated when involved in decision making or problem solving that affects the business. This study delineates the context of this construct, applies accepted scale development procedures, and provides construct and nomological validity evidence supporting the developed measure. The initial set of items for the measurement scale was generated from interviews conducted with employees in participatory work settings (Gauvreau-Jean, 2008). The initial 40-item scale was then tested with a sample of 508 workers within a manufacturing company. Scale reduction resulted in a scale covering four dimensions of the construct. Its content adequacy was then challenged by two focus groups and two expert assessments (Lessard, 2014).  Finally, the construct and nomological validity of the modified scale (which included 24 items) was tested with 330 front-line employees from four companies. The initial four-dimensional structure was supported, scale and factor reliabilities were high, and hypotheses relating employee business awareness to work characteristics, supervisor-rated contextual performance and affective organizational commitment were supported. The development of the 24-item employee business awareness scales may illuminate questions relating to employee participation and organizational effectiveness. Another survey completed by supervisors (n=43) tested the extra role performance of the frontline employees.
employee business awareness scale development validity decision-making autonomy information processing contextual performance organizational commitment