I am looking for a scale that measures professionals commitment to their professional organization.
I have found one scale by Meyer and Allen (1991) which focused on affective commitment, continuous commitment, and normative commitment of employees and the company they work for. However, I am looking for the same concept except for professionals (clinicians) and their commitment to a professional organization (membership) in which they do not work for.
I found an adapted version of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ). Angle and Perry (1981) focused on the respondents' commitment to supporting the goals of the organization (commitment to work) and their commitment to retain membership in the organization (commitment to stay). However, the issue with this scale was that they were the only ones to validate their subscales (which focus close to what I am looking for).
Do you know of any scales that measure what I am looking for?
Thank you in advance.
Dear Taylor,
There are several questionnaires to measure commitment. The most widely used organizational commitment measure is:
Mowday, R.T., Porter, L.W. and Steers, R.M., (2013). Employee—organization linkages: The psychology of commitment, absenteeism, and turnover. Academic Press, New York.
Best,
What you describe sounds a lot like career commitment. This is commitment to one's occupation or profession rather than a particular employer. Try:
Blau, G. (1989). Testing generalizability of a career commitment measure and its impact on employee turnover. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 35, 88-103.
Gary Blau is on Research Gate and has the full text of this paper available.
Article The measurement and prediction of career commitment
Dear Taylor
Below is a list of articles that should be useful. I think you are looking at commitment to ones profession or to ones career as opposed to ones organization.
Cafferkey, K., Harney, B., Dundon, T. and Edgar, F. (2017). "Unravelling the foci of employee commitment", Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 1-30.
Kinnie, N. and Swart, J. (2012), “Committed to whom? Professional knowledge worker commitment in cross‐boundary organisations”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 21-38.
Yalabik, Z.Y., Rossenberg, Y.V., Kinnie, N. and Swart, J. (2014), “Engaged and committed? The relationship between work engagement and commitment in professional service firms”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 26 No. 12, pp. 1602-1621.
Yalabik, Z.Y., Swart, J., Kinnie, N. and van Rossenberg, Y. (2016), “Multiple foci of commitment and intention to quit in knowledge-intensive organizations (KIOs): what makes professionals leave?”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp. 1-31.
Regards
Kenny
It seems to me that what you are trying to get at is somewhere between organizational commitment and occupational commitment (e.g., it's an organization, but a profession-based organization as opposed to one's employing company). I believe that O'Reilly and Chatman's (1986) Psychological Attachment measure might be of use to you in this circumstance (particularly the "identification and internalization" subscale) -
See Table 2 (p. 252) of: Caldwell, D. F., Chatman, J. A., & O'Reilly, C. A. (1990). Building organizational commitment: A multi-firm study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 63, 245-261.
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