AbstrAct Achieving IT-business alignment has been a long-standing, critical, information management issue. A theoretical framework of the maturity levels of management practices and strategic IT choices that facilitate alignment was empirically tested and validated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) validated 6 factors and identified 22 indices to measure strategic alignment maturity. A mixed ...

Measuring anxiety in terms of interpersonal relationship is important because of the intricate link between interpersonal relationship anxiety and parent-child relationships. This needs a valid and reliable measure to assess interpersonal relationship anxiety. The Interpersonal Relationship Anxiety Questionnaire (IRAQ) may compose such a measure. The present study was carried out to investigate...

Whether three or five dimensions are best able to explain and describe personality has been one of the major questions debated by personality researchers in recent times. The primary scales of the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP) and the short version (EPP-S) were examined using a sample of 400 students to determine their factor structure. Results by exploratory and confirmatory factor analys...

Although biographical data (biodata) has been predictive of turnover, there is no established scale designed specifically to measure attrition or quitting behaviors. The purpose of this study is to develop and test the structure of a biodata scale of quitting behaviors developed with construct-oriented scale construction. Using a large community sample (N = 702) covering different geographical ...

Trust is a major factor influencing the cohesiveness among virtual team members. While recent research in the fields of information systems and management has examined this construct, there are no existing instruments that measure all the different bases of trust. Drawing on the literature, three different bases of trust applicable to virtual teams have been identified: personality-based, insti...

Building on the early conceptual work of Lee and Cadogan (2000), this paper outlines the development of measuring scales for three sales manager problem resolution styles, namely: sales manager responsiveness, sales manager caring, and sales manager aggressiveness. The paper first provides a general introduction and theoretical primer to the topic of sales manager problem resolution styles. Thi...

Sleep is essential for learning, memory, neurobehavioral functioning, and emotion regulation. The importance of sleep in children has led to the creation of numerous sleep assessment instruments. However, there is a dearth of validated self-report measures. In an attempt to fill the gap, the Children’s Report of Sleep Patterns (CRSP) was developed for children ages 8-12. Despite its apparent st...