Organizational Commitment Questionnaire.
OCQ
- What it measures
- Organizational commitment (Porter's attitudinal/affective view): identification with and involvement in the organization - willingness to exert effort, desire to remain, acceptance of organizational values.
- Length and format
- 15 (9-item short form excludes the 6 reverse-keyed items). 7-pt agreement Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many incl. ES, ZH, AR, FA, KO, PT and others
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Mowday, R.T., Steers, R.M., & Porter, L.W. (1979). The measurement of organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 14(2), 224-247.
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