Adaptation of Barriers of Environmental Management System Scale in Hotel Enterprises to Turkish

Abstract

This research aims to adapt the Barriers of Environmental Management Systems Scale developed by Chan (2008) into Turkish. The scale, which consists of 28 Likert-type expressions, has six factors regarding internal and external barriers. In the first stage, the scale was translated to Turkish from its original language (English), then it was reverse translated too for language validity under the supervision of interpreters. Secondly, to ensure scope validity expert opinions were received, then finalize the expressions in scale has been given regarding their suggestion. Thus, the scale has been made suitable for the pilot application. The research population includes 2339 hotel enterprises operating in Turkey and do not have any environmental management system, program, or award. In this direction, middle and senior managers of 400 hotel businesses, which were reached by convenience sampling method between 1-28 February 2021, constitute the study sample. Validity, reliability, item and correlation analysis, and explanatory and confirmatory factor analyzes were carried out on the data collected in the study. According to the results, the expressions in the scale were placed under six dimensions, parallel with their original dimensions, and showed a valid and reliable structure.