TY - JOUR
T1 - The Importance of Employee Expectations in Organizational Diagnosis
AU - Pond, Samuel B.
AU - Armenakis, Achilles A.
AU - Green, Samuel B.
PY - 1984/4
Y1 - 1984/4
N2 - In this article, the authors advance arguments for empirically assessing expectations in terms of their importance in organizational diagnosis and the implementation of a change program. This study explores the feasibility of including in an organizational diagnostic survey a scale to measure employee expectations of the changeability of selected facets of organizational functioning. Exactly 437 employees from all levels of a mental health hospital completed a diagnostic survey. Each of the items on the survey included four parts pertaining to (a) a facet of organizational climate, (b) expectations of facet changeability, (c) facet importance, and (d) employee satisfaction with the facet indicated. Correlational analyses of responses to the four parts indicated that expectations of changeability could be measured independently of the remaining three parts. Moderated regression analyses clarify their nature and potential use.
AB - In this article, the authors advance arguments for empirically assessing expectations in terms of their importance in organizational diagnosis and the implementation of a change program. This study explores the feasibility of including in an organizational diagnostic survey a scale to measure employee expectations of the changeability of selected facets of organizational functioning. Exactly 437 employees from all levels of a mental health hospital completed a diagnostic survey. Each of the items on the survey included four parts pertaining to (a) a facet of organizational climate, (b) expectations of facet changeability, (c) facet importance, and (d) employee satisfaction with the facet indicated. Correlational analyses of responses to the four parts indicated that expectations of changeability could be measured independently of the remaining three parts. Moderated regression analyses clarify their nature and potential use.
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U2 - 10.1177/002188638402000207
DO - 10.1177/002188638402000207
M3 - Article
C2 - 10266959
AN - SCOPUS:0021432510
SN - 0021-8863
VL - 20
SP - 167
EP - 180
JO - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
JF - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
IS - 2
ER -