Readiness for Organizational Change Scale: Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

Readiness for organizational change has been extensively studied in the extant literature over the past years, and scholarly attention towards it continues to increase. Turkish researchers also utilize readiness for organizational change concept to examine the change practices enacted by Ministry of National Education. The purpose of this study is to conduct a cross-cultural adaptation of Readiness for Organizational Change (RFOC) scale into Turkish education setting. The participants of the current study included 335 teachers employed at K-12 public schools located in different provinces of Turkey. To test the construct validity of Turkish-adapted RFOC scale, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed. The results of CFA revealed that four-factor RFOC model provided good fit with the data. The internal consistency estimates of RFOC in terms of Cronbach Alpha ranged between .69 and .89. The reported estimates indicated that Turkish form of RFOC scale can be regarded as a reliable and valid instrument to measure change-readiness level of school teachers in Turkish context.