Validation of Model: The Process for Tier-I Variables

Reliability Test Of Tier-I Variables

As explained earlier the model argues in favour of having overall and proactive engagement of all stakeholders in the acquisition process. In pre-acquisition phase of the acquisition process, the model expects involvement of employees of the acquiring organization across all the three layers (Strategic, Tactical, and Operational) to coordinate, collaborate and arrive at a common point of agenda in terms of establishing better ambience for IT acquisitions, display and pursue standards in managing internal processes and formulating overall strategy for accepting a new scenario that is likely to emerge during and post-acquisition phases (Nonaka, 1988; Pearce & Robinson, 1996). It is however, important to note that organizations being generally hierarchical in nature, the scales used for measurements need to be carefully chosen because of overall goals that employees ion different layers pursue (Kanter, 2000; Basili et al., 1994; Mintzberg & Lampel, 1988). Despite these inequalities in goals and aspirations, organizational priorities need to be given the priority through appropriate methods and thus various scales need to be use to assess the scope for improvement and establish overall preparedness in the organization to bring positive changes in the climate, instill motivations among all employees and prepare them for IT acquisitions. This process needs use of carefully chosen measurement tools for assessment of reliabilities of the results obtained since stratifies samples (in this model all the samples are employees at various levels) are expected to holistically contribute to the organization’s overall pre-acquisition preparedness (Nunnally, 1978; Pedhazur, 1997; Rietveld & Van Hout, 1993; Spector, 1988; Carmines et al., 1999; Field, 2000; Mcliver & Carmines, 1994; Minieak, et al, 2001). In this chapter various tools and methods are used to assess the reliabilities data captured through the sampling process discussed earlier.

Table 1 provides the details of reliability-test of the variables done through “Cronbach alpha” and SPSS-10.1 has been used for the purpose.