VALIDITY AND RELIABILTY STUDY OF LEARNING ORGANISATION IN NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
Keywords:
Learning organisation, confirmatory factor analysis, New Zealand.Abstract
In this study, the dimensions of learning organisation questionnaires (DLOQ), as a measuring tool for the presence of learning organisation culture, was tested for its validity and reliability in the context of New Zealand manufacturing companies. The DLOQ has been validated in many different contexts before, but more studies are still needed to provide more evidence to the generalisability and robustness of the DLOQ. This study was carried out to investigate if the DLOQ can indeed measure the culture of learning organisation in New Zealand manufacturing companies as accurately and consistently just like in the other situations in which the DLOQ has been tested before. A total of 169 survey responses were analysed. As the results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item analysis, it was found that DLOQ had demonstrated adequate construct validity and reliability to be used as a way to measure the learning organisation culture in New Zealand.References
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