New Testament Organizational Spirituality: Factor Analysis

The factor analysis steps resulted in a 12-item scale measuring the New Testament-based Organizational Spirituality (NTOS) that measures employees’ perceptions of their leaders’ behaviors using a semantic differential response format with seven points anchored by: never true and always true. The NTOS scale was the average of the 12 items. The analysis did not show significant differences between, the male and female categories (of the 435 participants, 322 were female and 110 were male. One participant selected “other” and two participants chose not to answer the question about gender), the age categories, or the tenure categories. Because of the one large factor with a high Cronbach alpha score, there is a risk of common method variance. Future studies might want to include variables that measure other observed behaviors as well as self-reported variables.