Measuring organizational autonomy

Abstract

Through the review of the literature an attempt is made to define organizational autonomy and to explain how it differs from other related concepts like individual autonomy and decentralization. Further the researchers have developed a measure for organizational autonomy. The standard procedures for developing a scale are followed from concept definition to reliability testing. The procedures included establishing psychometric properties of the scale through content validity, scale dimensionality and internal consistency reliability. The outcome of the research is an eighteen item organizational autonomy scale comprising three dimensions of personnel, marketing and goal setting autonomy.