Work Group Flexibility: Development and Construct Validation of a Measure
开发并检验了一个测量工作组稳态运行灵活性的工具，该工具整合了僵化和混乱两个维度，并在任务分配、规则使用和沟通模式三个领域进行了验证，发现其具有满意的内部一致性，部分支持了理论预测的构念效度。
This paper develops and tests a measure of flexibility of work groups in steady-state functioning. The measure incorporates two different problems of adjustment in work groups, namely rigidity and disorganization, within aflexibility-inflexibility continuumn. The measure was aplied to three areas of work group activity in which environmental variations call for adjustment: allocation of tasks to members, use of rules and procedures, and communication patterns. The composite flexibility scale and the component rigidity and disorganization scales were found to have satisfactory internal consistency. Construct validity was investigated by relating the flexibility measure and its components to selected group variables which were theoretically expected to predict flexibility. Partial support was obtained for the hypothesized relationships in the present sample of groups. The integration of rigidity and disorganization within a composite flexibility scale is justified on the basis of thesefindings. Suggestions forfurther construct validity investigations for the flexibility measure are pointed out.