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Concept Redundancy and Rater Naivety in Organizational Research
Author(s) -
Morrow Paula C.,
Eastman Kenneth,
McElroy James C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb02724.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , protestant work ethic , organizational commitment , redundancy (engineering) , computer science , politics , political science , law , capitalism , operating system
The validity of five work commitment concepts is assessed via content analysis. The role of rater naivety (i.e., familiarity) with the concepts and measures used is also evaluated. Organizational commitment and Protestant work ethic were found to be least redundant. Naive raters demonstrated more redundancy than raters familiar with the concepts and measures. The implications of these findings for the study of work commitment and organizational research in general are discussed.