Equivalence in measurement

This volume highlights research and conceptual insights into one of the most basic, and yet, perplexing research issues in management-handling and assessing the comparability of our measurement devices across groups and measures. One of the most consistently difficult concerns in management research...

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Other Authors Schriesheim, Chester (Editor), Neider, Linda L., 1953- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., 2001.
SeriesResearch in management ; v. 1.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117691
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-543-1
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1.
  • Foreword and commentary
  • Chapter 2. Male and female interpretations of bidirectional work-family conflict scales: Testing for measurement equivalence
  • Chapter 3. Testing for metric invariance using structural equation models: Solving the standardization problem
  • Chapter 4. Alpha, beta, and gamma change: A review of past research with recommendations for new directions
  • Chapter 5. Measuring invariance using confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory: Perceptions of organizational politics in the United States and the middle east
  • Chapter 6. Identifying the sources of nonequivalence in measures of job satisfaction
  • Chapter 7. The importance of measurement equivalence in transnational research: A test of individual-level predictions about culture and the differential use of organizational influence tactics, with and without measurement equivalence.