ADAPTATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SPIRITUALITY SCALE TO TURKISH: A VALIDITY AND REABILITY STUDY

Abstract

The organizational spirituality scale is a scale consisting of 3 dimensions and 21 items developed by Milliman, Czaplewski and Ferguson (2003) to evaluate the level of organizational spirituality. In this study, the Organizational Spirituality Scale (OSS) was adapted to Turkish and structure validity studies were conducted. The data used in the study were obtained from 279 employees (health, administrative, technical and service personnel) working in a public hospital operating in the health sector. The construct validity was tested with confirmatory factor analysis, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which is an internal consistency coefficient, was used for its reliability. Factor analysis results revealed that the scale has a three-dimensional structure just like its original form. The reliability coefficient of the scale was determined as 0.88 and it is seen that the 21-item and three-dimensional measurement tool tested with CFA has sufficient goodness of fit indexes (x2/sd = 3.74, p = .00, RMSEA = .09, CFI = .92, GFI = .81, NNFI =.91). we can say that the three-dimensional organizational spirituality scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used in future studies in Turkey.