An Empirical Study on the Factor Structure of Organization

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10.2991/icetms.2013.265How to use a DOI?

Keywords

organizational structure; reliability analysis; validity analysis

Abstract

In view of the importance of organizational structure and the current situation of lack of documentation which discuss the measurement of organizational structure this paper has verified that three factors-complexity, normalization and centralization can be used to measure organizational structure, which is based on data analysis collected in an empirical study. The questionnaire is designed by comprehensive analysis of the three dimensionalities of organization and the relevant literature. Through the course of the study, we handed out questionnaires written in Chinese to 256 companies and we got 208 companies’ reply with a usability rate of 81.25%. Then this paper verifies the three factors model from the perspective of reliability and validity respectively. Finally, The test results show that the reliability and validity of the questionnaire are high and we can regard organizational structure as a three factors model.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingzhao Yang
AU  - Hongqi Ma
AU  - Jiajia Zhu
PY  - 2013/06
DA  - 2013/06
TI  - An Empirical Study on the Factor Structure of Organization
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 976
EP  - 979
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetms.2013.265
DO  - 10.2991/icetms.2013.265
ID  - Yang2013/06
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