Tomás Vargas-Halabí

Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Ronald Mora-Esquivel

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

 

Abstract

The present study aims to present the Cognitive Interview as a useful pre-test tool for adapting the Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS) to the Costa Rican business context, it was previously adapted in Valencia, Spain by Bonavia, Prado & Barberá (2009). The DOCS scale was originally developed in English by Denison (1984), Denison & Mishra (1995) and Fey & Denison (2003). The Cognitive Interview was applied to a sample of 15 individuals with supervisory or managerial positions in organizations with 25 or more employees. Based on the results of the interviews the scale was adjusted to local parlance. It was then applied in two samples, with similar characteristics, but belonging two different populations: a) 314 students drawn from 445 active students enrolled in Master’s Programs (MBA and Project Management) at the Costa Rican Institute of Technology, whose prerequisite for admission stipulates experience in professional positions, preferably supervisory and managerial, and; b) 368 managers drawn from a sampling frame of 1743 companies from various business associations. Eight types of confirmatory factor analyses were performed using EQS 6.3 software in order to explore the dimensionality of the adapted scale and to debug the final version. The Cognitive Interview was confirmed as a valuable tool in this process and the final scale (denominated DOCSCR-V2) demonstrated adequate functioning in the Costa Rican organizational context.

Keywords: DOCS model, cognitive interview, scale adaptation, organizational culture, SEM, confirmatory factor analysis

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