Development of the New Testament Organizational Spirituality—Climate Scale

In Chapter 8, we reported the NTOS-C scale development and the resultant 10-item optimized scale that measures 16 of the initial 38 items presented in Chapter 7 using data collected from 398 participants who were 21 years of age or older and had worked for at least three years. We tested concurrent and discriminant validity by correlating the 10-item NTOS-C measure with person-organization fit and a work-related anxiety scale. The significant correlation with person-organization fit supported the NTOS-C concurrent validity, and the lack of significant correlation with the work-related anxiety measure supported discriminant validity. We found significant differences in the NTOS-C average between gender, age, and ethnicity. In a second study, we examined NTOS-C with the (Allen and Meyer, Journal of Occupational Psychology 63:1–18, 1990) affective, continuance, and normative commitment measures using data from 269 participants who were 21 or older and had worked for at least three years. We found a significant positive correlation with all three organizational commitment measures. However, a linear regression analysis did not show a significant predictive relation between continuance commitment and the NTOS-C measure. We also reported suggested future research.