BUILDING AN ORGANIZATIONAL IMMUNE SYSTEM SCALE SYSTEM COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS

Abstract

The current paper aims is to establish a preliminary intellectual vision of the organizational immune system in preparation for devising a scaleformeasuring the organizational immune system that is supposed to enable the immune forms and immune function to detect organizational immune functions, which include five repetitive behaviors (immune perception, immune defense, immune memory, immune balance and immune control).Building the scale aims to detect the components, functions and characteristics of the system in order to derive the main and sub dimensions on which the building of the scale is based.The significance of the work lies in enabling organizations to overcome randomness in building, directing its organizational efforts taken against the behaviors of external and internal intruders that undermine the balance of the organization's systems, as well as directing the efforts of departments to recognize the importance of the existence of the organizational immune system in maintaining the balance of the organization through resisting abnormal operational and performing behaviors. Also, avoiding the ingestion of such abnormalities in the system and their effects as well as equipping the organization with the ability to act adaptively to face the internal or external dangers.The study has found that the intellectual contributions of the philosophy of the system have been built on a corrupt editing scale of (64) Phrases covered all its main and subsidiary dimensions.