Percepção de virtudes morais organizacionais: construção e validação de um instrumento de medida

Abstract

The links between individual and employer are being widely studied. Therefore, its normative dimension is still poorly explored. The sense within this base has a feeling of obligation implied in it, a sense demanding that, associated to values and standards shared between individual and organization; drive them to being morally linked to each other. The assumption is that moral virtues applied to organizations could affect this bond. However, the Brazilian literature doesn t have an instrument to measure this attribution, together with employees. Thus, the aim of this paper the construction and validation of a measuring instrument to the perception of organizational moral values. The methodology applied to this paper followed the procedures recommended by Pasquali (1999). The theoretical procedures gave foundation to the bibliographic review about the construct, in order to elaborate the definitions and items which constitute this study. To serve the validation procedures, the following step was based on the analysis of the answers from social and organizational psychology specialists to verify the obtained indexes of agreement. Afterwards, the instrument was applied to 227 respondents situated in Triângulo Mineiro/MG area that were formally linked to public and private companies. For the analytical procedure, was applied the exploratory factorial analysis method, through the extraction method Main Axis Factoring, rotation direct oblimin, factorial loads equal or above to 0,40 and auto values equal or bigger than 1,5. The results revealed that the moral organization virtue instrument of perception is composed of three factors that explains 58,89% from the total variation. The index of reliability for the organizational good Faith factor was 0,95, for the organizational reliability was 0,92 and for the organizational generosity was 0,80. Subsequent investigations must search for more delimitation of this construct and the relation between this measure and normative organizational commitment.