This article presents two studies about the construction and validation of an instrument to measure the perception and the judgment of the organizational retaliation. In the first study, the scale initially composed by 31 items was applied to a sample of 187 subjects. Data were submitted to factor analysis and the items that did not achieve the established criterion of factor charge were eliminated, so that in the final solution there were 15 remaining items. The results point to a one-factor structure for perception (alpha = .95) and for retaliation judgment (alpha = .89). In the second study (N = 313), the confirmatory factor analysis reaffirms the factorial structure obtained. The scales of perception and judgment demonstrate factorial validity with precision indexes that indicate them to be applied in the scientific sphere, which, compared to previous studies, present advances from a behaviorist conception to a perceptive and evaluative conception of the organizational retaliation.
measure of perception and judgment of retaliation; reactions to injustice; organizational retaliation
