ASSESSING INTEGRITY AT WORK: DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE OCCUPATIONAL INTEGRITY SCALE

Abstract

Interest in the diagnostics of integrity by work and organizational psychology researchers and practitioners alike has been steadily increasing. In two studies we report results on the development of the Occupational Integrity Scale (OIS), a novel, openly available scale. The first study tested the psychometric properties of the OIS in a sample of 870 adult public education employees. The second study replicated the factor structure of the OIS in a sample of 147 company employees and tested the validity against self-reported Big Five and supervisor-reported employee CWB two months later. A three-factor solution was identified. The OIS demonstrated consistent relationships with personality criteria and limited associations to supervisor assessment of CWB.