The field of organizational behavior was conceived in the sixties by British researchers as an emergent and almost independent discipline that would rely on others already established such as Psychology, Sociology and Economy. It should constitute an area of theorization and research in which organizational activities would be the object of study, not a context to where knowledge would be simply transferred and applied. The text emphasizes the impact that the structuring of the field in levels of analysis, its theoretical abundance and the lack of patterns might have upon the measures of variables. Questions concerning the measures are also analyzed as to their theoretical representation of the concepts by items, precision of scales, discriminant validity among measures of correlate concepts, as well as to the harmony between the measures and the evolution of the organizational dynamics, taking in account the current constant and accelerated changes in organizations.
Organizational behavior; Levels of analysis; Measures
