This study is the first attempt to develop a reliable and psychometrically sound measure of management imitation orientation in the banking industry using a rigorous approach. For this purpose, the study is divided into three stages in accordance with the most common contemporary practices of the scale development process. First, the item-generation stage which identifies a pool of relevant items to be extracted for scale development. Second, the theoretical analysis stage to test the content validity followed by the third stage which comprises of a psychometric analysis of items for testing reliability and construct validity following American Psychological Association (1985) criteria of reliability and validity for assessment of behavioural studies. After a thorough analysis of the construct's reliability and validity, a 5-item Likert scale was developed based on a literature driven definition of the concept of management imitation orientation.