Felt Organizational Publicness: Scale Development and Initial Validation

Kaifeng Yang, Yang Liu and Naon Min ()
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Kaifeng Yang: Renmin University of China
Yang Liu: Renmin University of China
Naon Min: Sookmyung Women’s University

Public Organization Review, 2025, vol. 25, issue 2, No 12, 595-612

Abstract: Abstract Organizational publicness is a fundamental concern to public administration, but little attention has been paid to its measurement at the individual level. This study develops a scale of felt organizational publicness and provides validation evidence. The findings result in a thirty-two-item scale comprising eleven factors. Higher-order factor models are tested to examine the relationships among these factors, revealing five key dimensions: purpose publicness, external environment publicness, value publicness, behavior publicness, and outcome publicness. The results also support the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the scale.

Keywords: Publicness; Felt organizational publicness; Measurement; Scale validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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