Provjera pouzdanosti i faktorske strukture skraćene focus-skale organizacijske klime na uzorku IT profesionalaca u Bosni i Hercegovini / Reliability and Factor Structure Assessment of the Shortened Focus Scale of Organizational Climate in a Sample of IT Professionals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

The aim of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the shortened FOCUS organizational climate scale on a sample of employees in the IT sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research was conducted in two phases. The first phase, a pilot study, included 116 participants and involved item analysis, reliability analysis, and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). All items demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties, with overall scale reliability of α = .88, indicating high internal consistency. Subscale reliabilities were also high: support (α = .86), innovation (α = .92), goals (α = .84), and rules (α = .78). The exploratory factor analysis confirmed the four-factor structure of the scale, with the factors of support, innovation, goals, and rules jointly explaining 68.33% of the total variance.
In the second phase, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on an independent sample of 334 participants. The CFA results indicated good fit to the proposed four-factor model (CMIN/df = 1.76; CFI = .96; TLI = .95; RMSEA = .068). The findings confirm that the shortened version of the FOCUS scale, after removing three items with poor psychometric properties, maintains validity and reliability for assessing organizational climate in the IT sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results support the use of this instrument for precise measurement of the dimensions of support, innovation, goals, and rules, thereby contributing to a better understanding and improvement of organizational climate in modern organizations such as those in the IT sector.