Am conducting a study on organizational commitment and am looking for a scale that has high reliability that I can easily use for my study to achieve a better result.
The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) (arabpsychology.com)
G'day Timothy,
I have gone through some quick literature review to corner your question. I found a journal paper dating from 1979 by RT Mowday cited by 16365 which could be considered as "the source of research, please have a look at it to comprehend better your research interest. In addition, I am posting other journal papers giving you some insights into the topic, please have a read-through. I also included Chapter 3 Measuring Organizational Commitment, Good luck.
Best wishes,
Sofiane
1. The measurement of organizational commitment
RT Mowday, RM Steers, LW Porter - Journal of vocational behavior, 1979 - Elsevier
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA057377.pdf
2. Organizational commitment, psychometric qualities and invariance of the Meyer and Allen Questionnaire for Portuguese Nurses, Published online 201, Sep 6, Cited by 30 — The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ), built-in 1990 for the North American context and reviewed by the authors in 1997
Article Organizational commitment, psychometric qualities and invari...
3. Chapter 3 Measuring Organizational Commitment
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813232167_0003#:~:text=Nowadays%2C%20the%20most%20accepted%20tool,normative%20commitment%20scale%20(NCS).
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813232167_0003,kindly check this link.
Nowadays, the most accepted tool to measure OC is that of Alan and Meyer (1990). This questionnaire is composed, in its full length, of 24 items, eight items in each of the following claimed dimension: affec- tive commitment scale (ACS), continuance commitment scale (CCS) and normative commitment scale (NCS).
https://www.worldscientific.com › ...PDF
Measuring Organizational Commitment - World Scientific
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdf/10.1108/eb028912,this link may be useful.
Hi Thimothy,
Other colleagues have already answered with interesting suggestions. It is useful to collect the various instrument available in the literature.
I may add an extra one. We (Roe, Zinovieva, Dienes and I) did a large comparative study of work motivation etcetera, comparing representative samples from Bulgaria, Hungary and the Netherlands. We used an OC scale that proved quite good and interesting. It was also used in various other studies and we developed a short variant as well (2 items) and compared this to the longer one.
You can find an overview of the full instrument we used (a very big one) in the report:
EXTENDED DELFT MEASUREMENT KIT
The EDMK, a coordinated set of measurement scales relevant for work motivation and quality of working life as developed in the European Research Programme on Work Motivation and Quality of Working Life (WMQ)
WMQ-Document 036-21-INT-EN Schipluiden: February 2021
European Research Programme on Work Motivation and Quality of Working Life
The full text is available in my files on researchgate.
The report gives summary information on each of the scales. You will find the OC scale there. The scale is a short one: 6 items, 5-point answering categories.
If you think the thing might be useful for your purposes, please contact me and I will send you the extensive report with all the information.
Best wishes,
Laurens
I would recommend the following publication:
- JOHN COOK AND TOBY WALL (1980) New work attitude measures of trust, organizational commitment and personal need non-fulfillment , Journal of Occupational Psychology, Volume 53, pp. 39-52.
To measure commitment I suggest two possiblilities
1. You could ask the people them selves to give their level of commitment a figure on a scale from 1 to 10.
2. You could aks people that are able to judge to give the level of commitment a figure on a scale form 1 to ten.
I used this scale for questions to entrepreneurs because in the schools they haven all been to this scale is used. So they understand the levels.
@Jan Postema Thank you so much but my project supervisor will not accept that measure. I think Meyer and Allen OCQ will serve me better
There is another publication, you may refer to:
- Stephen Jaros (2007) Meyer and Allen Model of Organizational Commitment: Measurement Issues, The Icfai Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. VI, No. 4, pp. 7-25.
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