CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING INGRATIATORY BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS Academic Article

abstract

• A measure of the frequency of employees' use of ingratiatory behavior at work was tested with a sample of employees (N = 716) working in a wide variety of organizations and jobs. Pilot testing reduced a 65-item pool to a 24-item instrument with four factors: Other Enhancement, Opinion Conformity, Self-Presentation, and Favor-Rendering. Internal consistency reliability was .92; test-retest reliability over one month was .73. Evidence for content, convergent, and discriminant validity was substantial. The Measure of Ingratiatory Behaviors in Organizational Settings (MIBOS) should enable researchers to focus on the empirical study of ingratiatory behaviors in organizations.

authors

• Beyerlein, Michael

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

altmetric score

• 0.25

author list (cited authors)

• KUMAR, K., & BEYERLEIN, M.

citation count

• 156

complete list of authors

• KUMAR, K||BEYERLEIN, M

publication date

• January 1991

publisher

• American Psychological Association (APA)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Applied Psychology  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour
• Behavioral And Social Science
• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1037/0021-9010.76.5.619

start page

• 619

end page

• 627

volume

• 76

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.76.5.619