Detailed Conceptual Analysis and Measurement of Organizational Blindness (Organizational Myopia): An Evaluation Through the Developed Scale

Oya Aytemiz Seymen (), TaÅŸkın Kili㇠() and OÄŸuzhan Kä°nter ()
Additional contact information
Oya Aytemiz Seymen: Avrasya Akademi

Eurasian Academy Of Sciences Social Sciences Journal, 2016, 212-222

Abstract: As a medical term, blindness is described by the World Health Organization as ?a status of only having 1/20 of regular vision or less among all creatures after taking all adjustments into account? (WHO, 2015). On the other hand, based on this description, traces of blindness investigated as ?bodily impairment specific to creatures? in health sciences can be faced at organizational level as well. The purpose of the present study is to bring the concept into Turkish literature by developing a Turkish scale for definition of organizational blindness concept which has not been adequately investigated within the relevant literature from the theoretical and empirical aspects, determination its dimensions, antecedents, consequences and its measurement. Conceptual section of the study was structured by utilizing limited number of studies reported in the relevant literature. Within the scope of development of the scale, the surveys consisted of 28 expressions and four sub-dimensions were prepared by taking dimensions used by Catino (2013) who wrote the book with title of ?Organizational Myopia? and by consulting specialists to measure organizational blindness; then their validity analysis was conducted through a pilot application. The survey was conducted face-to-face through convenience sampling method with 231 employees from the energy industry and another 231 from the health industry. Obtained findings were analyzed through the LISREL and the SPSS software. Finally, a scale for measuring organizational blindness concept which has only been considered by limited number of studies in management literature. Based on the analyses in the present study, it was determined that organizational blindness is composed of four different sub-dimensions, ?type of personality, degree of routineness, organization structure and industry structure?. On the other hand, based on the comparison of organizations included in the scope of the study in terms of organizational blindness, it was found regarding the four sub-dimensions of the concept that health employees have higher blindness perception with respect to energy industry employees.

Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://eurasianacademy.org/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/75 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eas:journl:v::y:2016:i::p:212-222

DOI: 10.17740/eas.soc.2016.MSEMP-18

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Eurasian Academy Of Sciences Social Sciences Journal from Eurasian Academy Of Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kutluk Kagan Sumer ().