Concept Definition and Scale Development of Organizational Resilience

doi:10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2020.10.019

Abstract

Abstract: The concept of organizational resilience was defined by collating and summarizing the existing related theories and literatures， and the qualitative data was collected through an open questionnaire. The structure of organizational resilience was explored using the grounded theory， and the two dimensions of organizational internal resilience and organizational external resilience were refined， based on which an initial scale of organizational resilience was developed. The item analysis， exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to revise and verify the scale. Finally， an organizational resilience measurement scale with 15 items and good reliability and validity was obtained， which laid the foundation for subsequent research.

Key words: organizational resilience, organizational internal resilience, organizational external resilience, concept definition, scale development

CLC Number:

ZHANG Lan-xia， WANG Le-le， ZHANG Qin， JIA Ming-mei. Concept Definition and Scale Development of Organizational Resilience[J]. Journal of Northeastern University Natural Science, 2020, 41(10): 1491-1499.

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