Improving Organizational Performance by Creating an Instrument That Can Help Keep Misuse of Manager Power Under Control

• Published in: Journal of applied social science
• Main Authors: Verkhohlyad, Olga O., Romanovskyi, Oleksandr O., Romanovska, Yuliia Yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 11-11-2024
• ISSN: 1936-7244; 1937-0245
• DOI: 10.1177/19367244241293693

Power misuse by managers in organizations is a wide-spread problem that has significant negative consequences for organizational performance. At the same time, published research on attempts of diagnosing power misuse is scarce. As such, organizations keep facing this problem without help from academia on handling it. The authors of this paper suggest addressing the issue by utilizing a regular survey with the purpose of diagnosing potential power misuse by supervising managers of an organization. The information collected via such a survey can be a powerful feedback instrument toward changing or continuing the state of affairs. Such a survey is developed in this paper. The survey has adequate face validity and Cronbach’s alpha reliability of 0.93. Furthermore, its criterion, convergent, external structure, and discriminant validity results indicate their good levels. Therefore, the survey may be recommended for use in the organizational setting. Utilization of this instrument can potentially lead to the increase of employee accomplishments, and the improvement of organization-wide performance.