A Longitudinal Examination of Validity and Temporal Stability of Organizational Dissent Measurement in France

ABSTRACT

This study examines the extent to which the Organizational Dissent Scale (ODS) maintains validity and temporal stability over time in a French sample. A longitudinal panel study was conducted. The results do not support that the ODS maintains validity nor temporal stability over time. These results are not indicative of problems with the original measure; it could be that conceptually dissent is a different process with different understandings in French culture. Cultural differences may render measures unusable between cultural groups.

KEYWORDS:

• Organizational dissent
• organizational tenure
• longitudinal design
• translation
• factor analysis
• reliability

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data described in this article are openly available in the Open Science Framework at DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/TPA6U.

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Stephen M Croucher

Stephen M Croucher - (PhD), Professor and Head of the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, New Zealand. Leading Research Fellow, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia.

Stephanie Kelly

Stephanie Kelly - (PhD), Associate Professor, Department of Business Information Systems and Analytics, North Carolina A&T State University.

Cheng Zeng

Cheng Zeng - (PhD), Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, North Dakota State University.

Mark Burkey

Mark Burkey - (PhD), Professor, Department of Economics, North Carolina A&T State University.

Flora Galy-Badenas

Flora Galy-Badenas - (MA), Assistant Lecturer, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, New Zealand.