Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces
Territoriality is an emerging concept of importance in organizations. Unfortunately, there does not exist currently a valid measure of territoriality with which to conduct research on territoriality in organizations. I developed a theoretically driven four-factor measure of territoriality. Six hundr...
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| description | Territoriality is an emerging concept of importance in organizations. Unfortunately, there does not exist currently a valid measure of territoriality with which to conduct research on territoriality in organizations. I developed a theoretically driven four-factor measure of territoriality. Six hundred and sixty-three people working in office settings completed an online survey about their territorial behaviors. Using confirmatory factor analysis I found that the four-factor structure had acceptable fit. I also found preliminary evidence of construct validity. Collectively, the results support the validity of the measure, thus providing an instrument for studying territoriality in organizations. I then discuss specific implications of this measure for both research and practise. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-426592017-09-13T14:25:26Z Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces Brown, Graham Territoriality is an emerging concept of importance in organizations. Unfortunately, there does not exist currently a valid measure of territoriality with which to conduct research on territoriality in organizations. I developed a theoretically driven four-factor measure of territoriality. Six hundred and sixty-three people working in office settings completed an online survey about their territorial behaviors. Using confirmatory factor analysis I found that the four-factor structure had acceptable fit. I also found preliminary evidence of construct validity. Collectively, the results support the validity of the measure, thus providing an instrument for studying territoriality in organizations. I then discuss specific implications of this measure for both research and practise. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42659 10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.05.004 Academic Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Brown, Graham Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title | Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title_full | Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title_fullStr | Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title_full_unstemmed | Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title_short | Claiming a corner at work: Measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| title_sort | claiming a corner at work: measuring employee territoriality in their workspaces |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42659 |