Dear Aboobucker, Herman's single factor is not even a test but a procedure and is not acceptable in detecting and dealing Common Method Bias or Variance. U can read carefully the paper i referred (Tehseen et al., 2017), it would definitely give u better insight about the matter. Regards

Podsakoff's article is a quite good suggestion. I used some of the methods proposed in the article in my Doctorate thesis and they worked perfectly.

YouTube videos are also great, mainly those provided by James Gaskin.

An, by the way, Gaskin will promote a SEM training in Marriott School of Management (Brigham Young University) in May, 2017, which can be followed online. Link for registration is http://marriottschool.byu.edu/event/sembootcamp2017/home. I'll be there (online, unfortunately...).

Good luck with CMB test.

This is an alternative: marker variable analysis. 

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/86/1/114/

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lindell/publication/12032562_Accounting_for_Common_Method_Variance_in_Cross-Sectional_Research_Design/links/0046352250fcb6bb24000000.pdf.

And by theway, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or ad hoc using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

Ju$t to help, look to thi$ link and get Girish's indication for free.

And by the way, it is a great indication: you can use having a marker in your questionnarie or, if you didn't do this, using the variable under study with the lowest correlation as a sort of marker.

Good suggestion !!

Article Accounting for Common Method Variance in Cross-Sectional Res...

I have the paper.

Hope can help.

Sorry for so many repeated answers.

It seems there was some broken piece in my computer... actually the piece sitting in front of it.

Again, sorry for that.

Its ok, thanks a lot .

a) how to get GoF, F, f square value in smart PLS 3 report.?

b) what is "Statistical Power" in smart pls? does it mean by anyone of the above? 

Please give me any link for these value calculator

It seems it is not working again.

Hopefully I'm not sending same message several times...

Let's see:

I'm not familiar with PLS but I search in YouTube and found these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC6mJONpWA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyFz4rLISbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9MfgImWCw

Hopefully they can be useful.

Regards,

Thanks a lot Alcides

Dear Aboobucker, you can try this article for a simple and comprehensive step by step guide about CMV. Regards.

Tehseen, S., Ramayah, T., & Sajilan, S. (2017). Testing and Controlling for Common Method Variance: A Review of Available Methods. Journal of Management Sciences, 4(2), 142-168.

This is regarding the common method bias.  I used Harman's single factor test  where my principal component factor analysis generated 4 factors whose Eigen value over 1,. The highest variance explained by one factor is accounted for 46.2%.  

In addition  I have included  the confirmed correlation matrix. Thus, any high correlation is also the evidence for common method bias (r > .90) (Gaskin 2011; Lowry and Gaskin 2014). 

When I submitted my paper to the journal they asked me the major revision and wanted me to do partialling out social desirability/general affectivity or partialling out a “marker” variable.

 1. Could you please explain what is the maximum cut-off for Harman’s single-factor test?

2. What is wrong with my calculated common method bias using  Harman’s single-factor test ? If problem exist how to       solve it using this method?

3. How to do common method bias test using partialling out a “marker” variable using smart PLS 3? / What are the steps          or procedure to do in Smart PLS 2?

4. Please send me any video tutorial links to learn this partialling out a “marker” variable. Please

I am looking forward your reply as soon as possible

Dear Aboobucker, Herman's single factor is not even a test but a procedure and is not acceptable in detecting and dealing Common Method Bias or Variance. U can read carefully the paper i referred (Tehseen et al., 2017), it would definitely give u better insight about the matter. Regards