Given that neither McManus’s (2008) original ROR model nor the
adjusted model was supported by the data, principal axis factor
analysis with a varimax rotation was used to explore the factor
structure of the data to identify a model of organizational resilience
that could be supported.
Atwo-factor solution (Appendix II) was extracted based on all 73
items shown in Appendix I. This resulted in a very clean two-factor
structure, where 53 items were retained to measure organizational
resilience and 20 items were dropped because of poor loadings
(,0.4, as previously discussed). Dropped items were reviewed in
relation to the literature, and it was found that most were covered by
other items; they are shown in Appendix I, and an explanation of
why each of these items was dropped can be found in Stephenson
(2011). In hindsight, this was because of the language of the items