Organizational Analgesics and Development of a Scale for Measuring Perceptions of University Students

Abstract

Organizational analgesics conceptualized by the author of this study can be defined as suppressing, mitigating or calming the organizational pains through various temporary initiatives on the basis of focusing only the symptoms instead of searching, finding out, and removing the root causes that bring about the pains. Introducing a new concept to the management science, this study aimed mainly to develop a valid scale for measuring the level of usage of organizational analgesics. 33 bachelor and graduate students participated in the preliminary scale development studies. The other analyses were conducted with 207 bachelor and graduate students from Harran University in the academic year of 2014-2015 in Turkey. The results revealed that the scale consisted of 24 items taken place in three factors entitled aims, management, and leadership. Content validity, descriptive statistics, Chronbach's Alpha coefficients, exploring and confirming factor analyses, and also discriminant validity studies confirmed the validity and reliability of the scale. Based on the results, this study has the implication that the organizations and researchers can determine and evaluate the usage of the organizational analgesics, find out potential risks threaten the life of organizations, and conduct next studies in the management science.