Concept Definition And Scale Development Of Individual Corruption In Organization

Corruption is the illness of human society,earliestly can be traced back to the fourth century BC,with the development in society and economic,its evolution increasingly diverse,penetrate more in-depth,gradually increase the destructive power of society.It has been one of the major problem of our country and society.Futhermore,corruption is no longer just a matter of government,it is also common in the enterprise organization.In China,from state-owned enterprises to private enterprises are suffuring corruption,which could even become the biggest obstacle.In the political field,our government has announced much policy fighting with corruption.While in economic field,how could our enterprises know the approperate ways to prevent and control corruption?What efficient management could supervisors implement?What is the root of corruption?These questions have attracted much attention of management researchers.Past corruption research mostly focused on government corruption,to explore the abuse of power in government officials,while management focus on corporate corruption is relatively less.There is still a greater developmental space for corruption in organization,with quanlitative research,quantitative research and other method.Moreover,corruption in organization has natural complexity and and specific characteristic,from the different stakeholder or beneficiary,which could be the whole organization or only behaviors themselves.The former is the individual corrupt behaviors in organization,while the latter is corrupt organization.This study distinguishes these two kinds of corruption,defines the concept of corruption within the organization,and discerns the differences with other negative behavior variables.In order to explore the dimensions of individual corruption within organization,a content analysis of literature from cnki was did and shown in this study.Through content analysis method,this study divides the internal corruption into two types:relational and economy.On the foundation of these two dimensions,this study developed the individual corruption in organization scale by questionares,interviews,expert opinions and exploratory factor analysis.The results were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis,multitrait-multisource test,hypothesis and test of logical relation network,etc.With good reliability and validity,the scale could be an important measuring and foundation for the future empirical research of individual corruption in organization.