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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Organizational Identification Scale.

OID

What it measures
Organizational identification - perceived oneness with and belongingness to the employing organization, distinct from affective commitment and from job satisfaction.
Length and format
6 items. 5-pt or 7-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated wherever social-identity research at work is done - DE, NL, ES, PT, ZH, TR, KO, IT, FR 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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Mael, F., & Ashforth, B. E. (1992). Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13(2), 103-123.

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