See this single page framework:
http://intergon.net/tsw/sustainableceos.pdf
It integrates the sort of individual and collective issues that you are interested in measuring.
Rights, duties, moral order, actions, position, story line, values ... etc
They are all there. You express them in qualitive terms. See my PhD (http://intergon.net/phd) for how I developed the framework and applied it. My thesis was about how CEOs deal withy sustainability issues. I spoke about altruism in the thesis too, but since concluded that people are not really altruistic about the environment - they are self interested and influenced by personal gain. So, altruism is ultimately reduced to $$. All the CEOs I interviewed only told me about things that they had already been caught doing wrong - that is, people do not deal with sustainability until they have been caught and they they deal with sustainability a lot.
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
Associate of RMIT University -
lionel.boxer@rmit.edu.au
Graduate School of Business
my "Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory"
now in a googe book - see link at
http://intergon.net
>>> Tom Gattiker <
tomgattiker@BOISESTATE.EDU> 28/07/09 12:45 PM >>>
My colleagues, Craig Carter, Wendy Tate, and I are looking for a couple of
scales. As supply chain researchers, we feel a bit out of our element when
it comes to the literature on these types of individual level constructs and
measures. We'd appreciate any guidance from people on this list serve.
First we would like to measure general environmental concern at the
individual person level. The only scale we have identified that seems to
have achieved reasonably widespread acceptance is the Revised NEP (New
Ecological Paradigm) scale (Dunlap, Van Liere, Mertig & Jones, 2000).
However, while the predictive validity of this scale seems fairly good, some
of the other measurement properties do not seem to be as well-established.
Are there alternatives we should be looking at?
Second we are interested in individual values that are well recongnized to
be associated with environmental concern or pro-environmental behavior. We
have homed in on egosim vs alturism and secondarily on traditional values
vs. openness to change (Schwartz et al; Stern et al) as measured by Stern et
al 1998, 1998. But we are wondering if we should be considering other
measures especially for the egoism/altrusim constructs.
The overall focus of our research is on antecedents of commitment by supply
managers to environmental projects that are being championed by others in
their organizations.
Thanks.
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Tom Gattiker
Assoc. Prof. of Supply Chain Management
Boise State University
tomgattiker@boisestate.edu
208.426.4998