A Pilot Investigation of the Determinants of Workplace Innovation Behaviour in Service Industry of Pakistan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to establish as well as examine the validity and reliability of the instrument to measure the antecedents of workplace innovation behaviour of women. The instrument was adopted and adapted from the original sources and data collected from 46 women employees was analyzed. The content and face validity were analyzed by experts of field and internal construct validity was also measured. The reliability of instrument was measured by internal consistent reliability through alpha coefficient along with intra-class correlation coefficients. Construct validity was measured by analyzing convergent and discriminant validity. Moreover, criterion-related validity was measured through correlation coefficients and internal construct validity was also analyzed by inter-item correlations and co- variances. The inter-item correlation for the variables used in the study shows that each item of the study correlates to all other items. All the items correlate with one another, though there are some lower values as well representing that those items have low correlation with each other but are considered acceptable. Statistical analysis suggested that test measures for constructs are reliable with the researchers’ comprehension of the nature of factors. All items met the level of acceptability. Hence, the results suggested that adapted instrument is valid and reliable in context of the selected respondents in Pakistan and a large-scale analysis can be done through this instrument.