Envolvimento em projetos: conceituação, adaptação e validação da escala de envolvimento duradouro

Abstract

This work intended to examine the psychometric properties of an involvement scale culturally adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language and to the context of projects, having been tested in the face of involvement in projects. The data collected through an electronic questionnaire and the statistical analysis techniques allowed verifying the adapted scale regarding its validity and reliability. During the literature review on involvement, the study of the construct engagement in areas such as hospitality, marketing and consumer behavior was identified, as well as the creation of various instruments (scales) for measuring engagement, however, still that applied to a lesser extent to the areas of business and management, we did not find evidence of its application specifically focused on projects. The original scale, used as a parameter, measures enduring involvement supported by the concept of personal relevance and had its psychometric properties tested whit positive results. Data were collected from participants in projects (N = 376) and were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, which presented few items not retained and satisfactory adjustment indices (RMSEA, SRMR, CFI and TLI) in the examination of the instrument's psychometric properties, respectively. The results of adapting and testing the psychometric properties of the engagement scale were consistent to validity and reliability criteria, and thus with the potential to contribute to the practice, offering a support tool for employee feedback, people management, and project team climate, as well as to the academy in the sense of expanding the research on project involvement and offering an updated and contextualized tool for measuring involvement in projects.