Exploring organizational indifference: Creating and validating a measure

The aim of this research is to explore and identify dimensions of organizational indifference and to provide a measure for measuring indifference levels in organizations for the first time in management community. Organizational indifference is a state of organizational employees in which success of an organization is not a matter for its employees and they work just for salary. To explore this state, we interviewed 32 employees of the research organizations, advertising companies, schools, public organizations and universities. By analyzing qualitative data, we found five themes for organizational indifference as follows: indifference towards manager, indifference towards organization, indifference towards clients, indifference towards colleagues and indifference towards job. We translated themes to variables and prepare a conceptual and operational framework (5 dimensions, 14 element, and 33 indicators) for organizational indifference, and for determining content validity, it was sent to 30 management consultants and experts (Appendix A). At the second stage, for determining construct validity of our measure, we established a correlation between this measure and three organizational standard measures, including "organizational commitment", "organizational turn over" and "organizational identity". The results confirm the construct of our measure.