You are provided two data-sets, one from male and the second from female (coded as gender=1 & 2 respectively) managers-that are collected to examine the psychometric properties (e.g., convergent, discriminant, contextual, predictive, and nomological validity) of a multidimensional measure of entrepreneurial orientation for use in retail settings (REO scale). The measure includes three well known dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation-innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking-but assessed for two facets of retailing function-customer service and merchandising.
1. Does the REO scale evidence acceptable psychometric properties both at the first-and second-order levels? What are its psychometric strengths and weaknesses?
2. Does gender introduce a bias in the use of REO scale both at the first- and second-order level, or is it robust?
3. To what extent does REO predict performance of managers, and which dimension(s) (first-order) and facet (second-order) has stronger predictive validity?
4. Do passion and REO show consistency within facet-that is, does passion merchandising passion have a stronger effect on REO for merchandising relative to its effect on REO for service (and similarly for service passion)?
5. Identify practical advantages of using IRT for analysis of REO scale.
Develop a report in AMJ style that summarizes your findings, interprets the results and provides clear development of your ideas and skills.
