Factored Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. II. Aircraft Workers

scores analyzed against criteria of organizational effectiveness to determine if individuals in the &dquo;more effective&dquo; work units respond to the items differently from those in the &dquo;less effective&dquo; units. In addition to this basic endeavor, a program of questionnaire refinement has been carried out for the purpose of purifying the dimensions with respect to internal consistency and dimension independence (3, 9, 10). The present paper describes one such effort using a sample of hourly workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. This report will be divided into two sections; the first section will be devoted to describing the results of a modified WherryGaylord iterative item analysis (7, 8), and the second will present the results of a factor analysis of the intercorrelations among