Development and Validation of the Organizational Induced Duplicity (OID) Scale in the Canadian’s Telecommunications Retail Sector
摘要
The increasing contingencies facing firms in the 21st century have led some senior managers to intensify workforce pressure in efforts to maintain competitiveness and expand market share within their industry. However, this approach may inadvertently prompt employees to engage in duplicity to meet organizational objectives. Drawing from organizational behavior and sociology literature, this study introduces the construct of Organizational Induced Duplicity (OID) to capture how organizational practices and internal policies may be perceived by employees as endorsing dishonesty and duplicity in the workplace. Drawing on an initial pool of 63 items derived from a comprehensive literature review and focus groups, and guided by DeVellis’ (