Matsuo, Akiko et al
Developing and validating Japanese versions of psychological safety scale, knowledge sharing scale and expressed humility scale - Management and Labour Studies - 49(3), Aug, 2024: p.375-388
This article presents the development and validation of Japanese versions of three widely used organizational behavior scales: the Psychological Safety Scale, the Knowledge Sharing Scale, and the Expressed Humility Scale. Recognizing the importance of cultural adaptation in psychometric research, the study employed rigorous translation, back-translation, and pilot testing procedures to ensure linguistic and conceptual equivalence. Reliability analyses confirmed internal consistency, while validity testing demonstrated strong construct alignment with the original scales. The findings highlight the applicability of these measures in Japanese organizational contexts, enabling cross-cultural comparisons and advancing research on workplace dynamics. By situating the scales within broader debates on psychological safety, knowledge exchange, and humility in leadership, the paper underscores the importance of culturally sensitive tools for global organizational research and practice. Organizational research has increased in the contemporary, digitalized and global society. Mainly researchers in Western countries conducted empirical, organizational research in the past. These studies have investigated combinations of psychological safety, knowledge sharing and leaders’ expression of humility because these variables have crucial roles in organizational functions. Japanese research on these variables has been scarce due to the lack of scales for assessing these variables in Japanese. From a methodological perspective, research conducted in Western and other cultures where most people understand English requires multicultural validation studies. Therefore, we developed Japanese versions of scales assessing psychological safety, knowledge sharing and expressed humility and assessed their structural validity, internal consistency and convergent validity. The results indicated factor structures and inter-correlations between the scales consistent with previous research. This work is novel because of its large samples across multiple job types in contemporary work organizations. We expect this study to make methodological and theoretical contributions to future research.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0258042X231191871
Psychology, Psychometrics, Psychological Safety, Knowledge Sharing, Expressed Humility, Scale Development, Cross-Cultural Validation, Japan, Organizational Behavior, Reliability, Validity
, Engagement, Expressed humility, Inclusion, Knowledge sharing, Organization sciences, Psychological safety.
Developing and validating Japanese versions of psychological safety scale, knowledge sharing scale and expressed humility scale - Management and Labour Studies - 49(3), Aug, 2024: p.375-388
This article presents the development and validation of Japanese versions of three widely used organizational behavior scales: the Psychological Safety Scale, the Knowledge Sharing Scale, and the Expressed Humility Scale. Recognizing the importance of cultural adaptation in psychometric research, the study employed rigorous translation, back-translation, and pilot testing procedures to ensure linguistic and conceptual equivalence. Reliability analyses confirmed internal consistency, while validity testing demonstrated strong construct alignment with the original scales. The findings highlight the applicability of these measures in Japanese organizational contexts, enabling cross-cultural comparisons and advancing research on workplace dynamics. By situating the scales within broader debates on psychological safety, knowledge exchange, and humility in leadership, the paper underscores the importance of culturally sensitive tools for global organizational research and practice. Organizational research has increased in the contemporary, digitalized and global society. Mainly researchers in Western countries conducted empirical, organizational research in the past. These studies have investigated combinations of psychological safety, knowledge sharing and leaders’ expression of humility because these variables have crucial roles in organizational functions. Japanese research on these variables has been scarce due to the lack of scales for assessing these variables in Japanese. From a methodological perspective, research conducted in Western and other cultures where most people understand English requires multicultural validation studies. Therefore, we developed Japanese versions of scales assessing psychological safety, knowledge sharing and expressed humility and assessed their structural validity, internal consistency and convergent validity. The results indicated factor structures and inter-correlations between the scales consistent with previous research. This work is novel because of its large samples across multiple job types in contemporary work organizations. We expect this study to make methodological and theoretical contributions to future research.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0258042X231191871
Psychology, Psychometrics, Psychological Safety, Knowledge Sharing, Expressed Humility, Scale Development, Cross-Cultural Validation, Japan, Organizational Behavior, Reliability, Validity
, Engagement, Expressed humility, Inclusion, Knowledge sharing, Organization sciences, Psychological safety.