Research Article
Participation in Decision Making as a Property of Complex Adaptive Systems: Developing and Testing a Measure
Table 3
Study II: Confirmatory factor models estimated for scope and intensity items from the PDM scales (
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(a) Registered nurse participation in decision making |
| Model | Decision type | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | Strategic operations | Strategic marketing | Tactical core functions | Tactical support functions |
| (a) Independence: chi-square/df | 3095.9/66 | 3374.5/66 | 2708.2/66 | 2551.0/66 | (b) One factor: chi-square/df/() | 1409.7/54/(<0.001) | 1413.0/54/(<0.001) | 1519.2/54/(<0.001) | 1494.5/54/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.54 | 0.58 |
0.31 | 0.41 | (c) Two factors: chi-square/df/() |
881.2/53/(<0.001) | 798.5/53/(<0.001) | 879.1/53/(<0.001) | 965.0/53/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.72 | 0.76 | 0.68 |
0.62 | Chi square difference (b) versus (c) | 528.5/1/(<0.001) | 614.5/1/(<0.001) | 640.1/1/(<0.001) | 529.5/1/(<0.001) | (d) Two factors + corr. error: chi-square/df/() | 143.0/35/(<0.001) | 164.5/35/(0.001) | 133.8/35(0.001) |
157.8/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.94 | Chi square difference (1 versus 2 factor models with correlated error) | 103.2/1/(<0.001) | 129.4/1/(<0.001) | 79.0/1/(<0.001) | 82.8/1/(<0.001) |
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(b) Certified nurse assistant participation in decision making |
| Model | Decision type | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | Strategic operations | Strategic marketing | Tactical core functions | Tactical support functions |
| (a) Independence: chi-square/df | 2859.6/66 | 2702.1/66 | 2347.9/66 | 2385.8/66 | (b) One factor: chi-square/df/() | 982.3/54/(<0.001) | 1023.3/54/(<0.001) | 1025.0/54/(<0.001) | 1069.9/54/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.56 | 0.55 | (c) Two factors: chi-square/df/() | 567.7/53/(<0.001) | 799.7/53/(<0.001) | 793.0/53/(<0.001) | 886.4/53/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.80 | 0.70 | 66 | 63 | Chi square difference (b) versus (c) | 405.6/1/(<0.001) | 223.6/1/(<0.001) | 232/1/(<0.001) | 183.5/1/(<0.001) | (d) Two factors + corr. error: chi-square/df/() | 74.8/35/(<0.001) | 127.6/35/(0.001) | 155.1/35(0.001) | 176.2/(<0.001) | Bentler and Bonnet normed fit | 0.97 | 95 | 93 | 0.93 | Chi square difference (1 versus 2 factor models with correlated error) | 104.1/1/(<0.001) | 26.6/1/(<0.001) | 24.31/1/(<0.001) | 15.4/1/(<0.001) |
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