Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework, Third Edition

Appendix B. PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSES OF THE MANAGEMENT SKILLS ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT

Because the Management Skills Assessment Instrument (MSAI) has been widely used and is such an important supplement to organizational culture change efforts—as well as being an excellent personal management improvement tool—we include a brief discussion of its psychometric properties here. This discussion may be helpful to individuals who want to use this instrument in their own organization change efforts or for research purposes. The MSAI itself is reproduced at the end of this appendix.

The best and most sophisticated analysis of the psycho-metric properties of the MSAI was conducted by Lee Collett and Carlos Mora at the University of Michigan. The key question ...