Development and Standardization of Organizational Procrastination Scale

The aim of this study was to develop and standardize Organizational Procrastination Scale. In this regard 503 employees from different organizations in Tehran were selected through multi-stage sampling method. The results of test-retest and internal consistency of this scale revealed that the test-retest and Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients were 0.75 and 0.89, respectively. The positive correlation coefficient between Organizational Procrastination Scale and Scale of Society Procrastination confirmed the concurrent validity (0.63, p ≤ 0.01). The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that more than %47 of variance of organizational procrastination was explained, indicating the good construct validity of the scale. Principal component analysis with obliman rotation confirmed a three factors solution. Confirmatory factor analysis with acceptable goodness of fit indices confirmed the 3 factors solution. Regarding to the findings it is concluded that the organizational procrastination is a reliable and valid scale and can be used for measurement of procrastination.