Commitment

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• Note that Wikipedia has a fairly good review of organizational commitment that you might find useful [1]. You may also want to check Satisfaction.

Affective Commitment

• Mowday, R. T., Steers, R. M., & Porter, L. W. (1979). The measurement of organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 14, 224-247. 15 items to assess organizational commitment.
  • Used in many papers, includingTepper, Bennett J.; Henle, Christine A.; Lambert, Lisa Schurer; Giacalone, Robert A.; Duffy, Michelle K. 2008. Abusive Supervision and Subordinates Organization Deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(4):721-732.
  • Shorter version often used with 9 positively worded items. Used in:
    • Choi, Jaepil. 2008. Event justice perceptions and employees' reactions: Perceptions of social entity justice as a moderator. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(3):513-528. Cronbach's alpha=.93
    • Liao, H., Joshi, A., & Chuang, A. (2004). Sticking out like a sore thumb: Employee dissimilarity and deviance at work. Personnel Psychology, 57, 969–1000.
    • Naumann, S. E., & Bennett, N. (2000). A case for procedural justice climate: Development and test of a multilevel model. Academy of Management Journal, 43, 881–889.
• Allen, N. J. & Meyer, J. P. (1996). Affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization: An examination of construct validity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 49, 252-276.
• Van Dyne, L., Graham, J. W., & Dienesch, R. M. (1994). Organizational citizenship behavior: Construct redefinition, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal, 37, 765–802. 8 items to measure organizational loyalty.
  • Used in Orvis, Karin A.; Dudley, Nicole M.; Cortina, Jose M. (2008). Conscientiousness and reactions to psychological contract breach: A longitudinal field study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93:5, 1183-1193. Cronbach's alpha=.91.
• Lee, Thomas W.; Ashford, Susan J.; Walsh, James P.; Mowday, Richard T. (1992). Commitment propensity, organizational commitment, and voluntary turnover: A longitudinal study of organizational entry processes. Journal of Management, 18, 15-32.
  • Includes a measure of pre-hire commitment.

Organizational Identification

• Edwards, M. R. and Peccei, R. (2007) “Organizational identification: Development and testing of a conceptually grounded measure”, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 25-57.
• Mael, F.A. & Tetrick, L.E. (1992). Identifying organizational identification. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 52, 813-824.
• Shamir, B. & Kark, R. (2004). A single item graphic scale for the measurement of organizational identification. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77, 115-123.

Occupational Identification

• See Johnson, M., Morgeson, F., Ilgen, D., Meyer, C., & Lloyd, J. (2006). Multiple professional identities: Examining differences in identification across work-related targets. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 498-506, for an application of organizational identification scales to an occupational referent.