The Development of the Employee Resource Groups Scale (ERGS)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a scale that captures employee perceptions of the efficacy of employee resource groups (ERGs). The study aimed to develop a perceptions of employee resource groups scale. The authors recruited data from 268 participants from a for-profit organization in the United States. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to examine the factor structure of the ERGS. Cronbach's alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of each factor. The exploratory factor analysis identified 2 factors: employee resource group outcomes, and supervisory support. There is a growing body of research that examines the activities and the efficacy of employee resource groups within for-profit organizations. There is not a validated scale that measures perceptions of the outcomes of ERGs and how supervisory support influences the employees' participation in the ERGs.