Common method bias: It's bad, it's complex, it's widespread, and it's not easy to fix

PM Podsakoff, NP Podsakoff, LJ Williams… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Despite recognition of the harmful effects of common method bias (CMB), its causes,
consequences, and remedies are still not well understood. Therefore, the purpose of this …

Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations

GW Cheung, HD Cooper-Thomas, RS Lau… - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Many constructs in management studies, such as perceptions, personalities, attitudes, and
behavioral intentions, are not directly observable. Typically, empirical studies measure such …

Normalizing the use of single-item measures: Validation of the single-item compendium for organizational psychology

RA Matthews, L Pineault, YH Hong - Journal of Business and Psychology, 2022 - Springer
The application of single-item measures has the potential to help applied researchers
address conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges. Based on a large-scale …

Construct development and validation in three practical steps: Recommendations for reviewers, editors, and authors

LS Lambert, DA Newman - Organizational Research …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We review contemporary best practice for develo** and validating measures of constructs
in the organizational sciences. The three basic steps in scale development are:(a) construct …

Back-translation practices in organizational research: Avoiding loss in translation.

AC Klotz, BW Swider, SH Kwon - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
As organizational research continues to globalize, scholars increasingly must translate
established scales into languages other than those in which the scales were originally …

Common methodological mistakes

JN Wulff, GB Sajons, G Pogrebna, S Lonati… - The Leadership …, 2023 - Elsevier
For scientific discoveries to be valid—whether in theory or empirically—a phenomenon must
be accurately described: The scientist must use appropriate counterfactuals and eliminate …

Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work

BB Caza, EM Reid, SJ Ashford… - Human Relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Gig workers commonly face challenges that differ in nature or intensity from those
experienced by traditional organizational workers. To better understand and support gig …

Where is “behavior” in organizational behavior? A call for a revolution in leadership research and beyond

GC Banks, HM Woznyj, CA Mansfield - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
Behaviors can be characterized as “the internally coordinated responses (actions or
inactions) of whole living organisms (individuals or groups) to internal and/or external …

Psychological measures aren't toothbrushes

M Elson, I Hussey, T Alsalti, RC Arslan - Communications Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Most psychological measures are used only once or twice. This proliferation and variability
threaten the credibility of research. The Standardisation Of BEhavior Research (SOBER) …

When “who I am” is under threat: Measures of threat to identity value, meanings, and enactment.

MM George, K Strauss, JN Mell… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Although scholars across fields have studied threats to individuals' identities for their impact
and ubiquity, the absence of standard scales has hindered the advancement of this …