Cross-cultural adaptation of a questionnaire measuring organizational citizenship behavior towards the environment
Candida Duarte Manuel, Carla Rebelo Magalhães, Claudia Maria Huber, Lukáš Smerek, Artur Fernandes Costa and José Ribeiro Alves
Translation, adaptation, and validation of instruments for cross-cultural investigation requires a rigorous methodological procedure that should be carefully planned to deliver instruments with adequate reliability and validity. This process was applied to a questionnaire measuring Organizational Citizenship Behavior toward the Environment (OCBE), Organizational Identification (OI), Environmental Responsibility (ER), and Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) in Portuguese and Slovak organizations. Several methodological procedures for cross-cultural adaptation and validation of questionnaires were analyzed, most of which used independent translators, experts' analysis, and backward translation to the original language. In the present study, a procedure adapted from Beaton et al. (2000) was applied successfully, and the blind backward translations; expert committee; and the two pretests to assess content validity, functional equivalence, and clarity proved to be worthy. The psychometric properties were measured using a sample from Portugal (N = 122) and Slovakia (N = 269). Although employees were perceiving neither a strong environmental responsibility of their organizations nor strong green human resources management, they identified themselves with the organizations and engaged in OCBEs. Comparing both countries, the factorial structure was remarkably similar, highlighting the eco-helping actions and eco-civic engagement of OCBEs. Comparing both countries, the factorial structure was remarkably similar, highlighting the eco-helping actions and eco-civic engagement of OCBEs. The results indicated that the translated instrument was functionally equivalent to the original one, valid (scale CVI/Ave > 0.83), and reliable (Scale Alpha > 0.733) for evaluating the effect of employee practices and organization management in promoting and supporting environmental sustainability.
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2024
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Authors: | Manuel, Candida Duarte ; Magalhães, Carla Rebelo ; Huber, Claudia Maria ; Smerek, Lukáš ; Costa, Artur Fernandes ; Alves, José Ribeiro |
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Administrative Sciences : open access journal. - Basel : MDPI, ISSN 2076-3387, ZDB-ID 2662651-2. - Vol. 14.2024, 3, Art.-No. 67, p. 1-38
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Subject: | cross-cultural adaptation | environmental responsibility | green human resource management | organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment | organizational identification | Portugal | Slovakia | translation | Arbeitsverhalten | Work behaviour | Umweltbewusstsein | Environmental consciousness | Personalmanagement | Human Resource Management | Umweltmanagement | Environmental management | Unternehmenskultur | Corporate culture | Corporate Social Responsibility | Corporate social responsibility | Interkulturelles Management | Cross-cultural management |
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