Development and Validation of Implicit Measures for Organizational Climate

Abstract

Organizational climate is the shared perceptions and valuations people hold about their experiences in the workplace. Organizational climate research has relied upon self-report measures, which can be influenced by impression management and inaccurate self-knowledge artifacts. This research used IAT procedures to develop measures of selected aspects of organizational climate and examined the relationships of the implicit measures with theoretically related explicit measures according to a multitrait-multimethod design. Confirmatory factor analyses of alternative latent trait models provided evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. Future research might focus upon developing measures with better psychometric properties and exploring the potential for incremental predictive validity.