Page No 34-42
Avinash Kumar Srivastav
Organization Development Researcher & Consultant
Bangalore, India
Revalidation of Pareek’s Organizational Role Stress (ORS) framework identified Role
Underload (RU) caused by lack of utilization of competent and willing employees.
Srivastav’s new ORS framework included a RU Scale but it measured RU consistently
higher. This necessitated improvements in RU measurement. Conceptualization of RU,
development of improved RU scale, and establishing its reliability and validity have
been reported. Improved RU scale was tested on 73 respondents in a business school.
Reliability of the scale was assessed and improved by computation of Cronbach’s alpha,
Corrected Item-Total Correlation, Item-Deleted Cronbach’s alpha, and pruning of weak
items. Improved RU scale demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency reliability.
Validity of improved RU scale was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis. The new
RU scale can be used to identify underloaded roles for enhancing their effectiveness