Organizational Change Questionnaire–Climate of Change, Processes, and Readiness: Development of a New Instrument

2009/09/30 by Dave Bouckenooghe, Geert Devos, Herman Van den Broeck +1 · 354 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Climate change #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Geography #Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Knowledge management #Organisation climate #Organization development #Organizational Change and Leadership #Organizational change #Political science #Process (computing) #Psychology #Public relations #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1080/00223980903218216

published in The Journal of Psychology 143(6), 559-599 (Taylor & Francis)

openalex publication_date 2009/09/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02

Abstract

On the basis of a step-by-step procedure (see T. R. Hinkin, 1998 Hinkin, T. R. 1998. A brief tutorial on the development of measures for use in survey questionnaires. Organizational Research Methods, 1: 104–121. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), the authors discuss the design and evaluation of a self-report battery (Organizational Change Questionnaire–Climate of Change, Processes, and Readiness; OCQ–C, P, R) that researchers can use to gauge the internal context or climate of change, the process factors of change, and readiness for change. The authors describe 4 studies used to develop a psychometrically sound 42-item assessment tool that researchers can administer in organizational settings. More than 3,000 organizational members from public and private sector organizations participated in the validation procedure of the OCQ–C, P, R. The information obtained from the analyses yielded 5 climate-of-change dimensions, 3 process-of-change dimensions, and 3 readiness-for-change dimensions.

Citations

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• The Application of Electronic Computers to Factor Analysis

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