Handbook of Management Scales/Power

Power (CR = 0.75)

Description

Hofstede's five cultural factors are reconceptualized as ten personal cultural orientations: independence, interdependence, power, social inequality, masculinity, gender equality, risk aversion, ambiguity intolerance, tradition, and prudence. A new 40-item scale is developed to measure these personal cultural orientations. Much effort has been invested in ensuring validity, reliability, and cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the new scale.

Definition

Power represents the extent to which individuals accept differences in the power wielded by various members in any organization.

Items

• I easily conform to the wishes of someone in a higher position than mine. (0.72)
• It is difficult for me to refuse a request if someone senior asks me. (0.68)
• I tend to follow orders without asking any questions. (0.67)
• I find it hard to disagree with authority figures. (0.65)

Source

• Sharma (2010): Measuring Personal Cultural Orientations: Scale Development and Validation. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 787–806