🆕 New Publication Alert : Developing and validating the organisational health and toxicity scale: insights from a healthcare system crisis
By Prof. Dr. Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi
🆕 New Publication Alert | Human Resource Development International (HRDI)
What if you could measure your organization's health and toxicity with just 7 questions?
That's exactly what the Perceived Organizational Health and Toxicity (POHT) scale does. Published today (May 27, 2026) in HRDI, this validated instrument gives HRD professionals a fast, evidence-based way to diagnose workplace climate, even in high-pressure, time-scarce environments.
Why it matters: Most diagnostic tools force a choice: measure the good or the bad. The POHT scale does both. It captures seven core dimensions, capability, governance, information flow, fairness, organizational awareness, growth, and equality, as a continuous spectrum from toxic to healthy. One scale. The full picture. And its reverse scoring yields a direct measure of Perceived Organizational Toxicity (POT), doubling its diagnostic value.
Built for the real world: Validated across 2,371 clinical nurses in South Korea, China, and Japan, including during a national doctors' strike that turned hospitals into natural experiments in organizational stress. If it holds up there, it works in your organization too.
What practitioners get:
A 7-item, forced-choice format that takes minutes to complete
Cross-culturally validated across three East Asian healthcare systems
Grounded in JD-R, COR, and Psychosocial Safety Climate frameworks
A ready-to-use compass for targeted interventions, not just data collection
Organizations don't fail all at once. They erode, quietly, dimensionally, unevenly. The POHT scale helps leaders see that erosion early, and act.
📄 Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2026.2678804
Remarks: 50 Free eprint copy available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RBSBZIIN8XDE5JNY3MIA/full?target=10.1080/13678868.2026.2678804
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Prof. Dr. Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi — Editor-in-Coordination, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi, PhD is an Associate Professor of Business at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Editor-in-Coordination of K-GSP Forum (contact: jeonghwan.choi@gmail.com). With over 25 years of industry and consulting experience, he specializes in leadership development, human resource management, organizational behavior, and social entrepreneurship. His research focuses on workforce resilience, organizational health, and self-directed leadership — bridging rigorous scholarship with practical insight to cultivate leaders who create meaningful, sustainable, and humane organizations.
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