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  • 1.  Org Commitment and Job Satisfaction Scales

    Posted 11-22-2016 13:06
    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for scales to measure "Organizational Commitment" and "Job Satisfaction".

    Can you make some recommendations?

    Thanks!
    Golshan

    Golshan Javadian Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management, Graves School of Business and Management, Morgan State University
    (443) 885-4289 | golshan.javadian@morgan.edu |
     1700 E. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, MD 21251
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  • 2.  Org Commitment and Job Satisfaction Scales

    Posted 11-22-2016 14:42

    Hi Golshan,


    Dr. John Meyer at the University of Western Ontario is a pioneer in the area of commitment. There has been a lot of research on the multi-dimensional commitment scales he developed, and also a lot of research with them.


    They can be purchased through U.W.O., along with a manual.


    Hope that information is helpful,

    Sheldene


     

    Sheldene Simola, M.B.A., Ph.D.

    Associate Director, School of Business

    Associate Professor, School of Business

    Trent University

    1600 West Bank Drive

    Peterborough, ON

    K9L 0G2  Canada

    705-748-1011 Ex. 7237

    ssimola@trentu.ca

     

     

     



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    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for scales to measure "Organizational Commitment" and "Job Satisfaction".

    Can you make some recommendations?

    Thanks!
    Golshan

    Golshan Javadian Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management, Graves School of Business and Management, Morgan State University
    (443) 885-4289 | golshan.javadian@morgan.edu |
    1700 E. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, MD 21251
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  • 3.  Org Commitment and Job Satisfaction Scales

    Posted 11-22-2016 16:50
    Hi Golshan:
    There are a few to choose from (and a fair few critiques of some of their shortcomings) but traditionally there were two main instruments, Mowday and Steers' Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and Meyers and Allen’s Affective, Continuance and Normative Scales. The choice boils down to the definition you prefer of commitment (references to both are below).

    I prefer and was persuaded by Klein et et al’s reconceptualization of the construct and used their survey questions recently. Again references below. Whichever you choose it is worth bearing in mind that the completion of the survey can be regarded by some respondents as burdensome and you may like to consider what you will do with partially completed surveys (mine were online and not hard copy, so relatively easy to apply any rules). Best of luck and happy to discuss if you feel the need.
    Regards Clive
    clive.landa@cranfield.ac.uk

    Mowday, R.T., Steers, R.M. & Porter, L.W., 1979. The Measurement of Organizational Commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 14(3), pp.224–247
    Meyer, J.P. & Allen, N.J., 1997. Commitment in the workplace, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
    Klein, H.J., Molloy, J.C. & Brinsfield, C.T., 2012. Reconceptualizing workplace commitment to redress a stretched construct: revisiting assumptions and removing confounds. Academy of Management Review, 37(1), pp.130–151 and
    Klein, H.J. et al., 2014. The Assessment of Commitment: Advantages of a Unidimensional, Target-Free Approach. The Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(2), pp.222–238. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24188389 [Accessed December 9, 2013]


    > On Nov 22, 2016, at 1:05 PM, Golshan Javadian <golshan.javadian@MORGAN.EDU> wrote:
    >
    > Dear colleagues,
    >
    > I am looking for scales to measure "Organizational Commitment" and "Job Satisfaction".
    >
    > Can you make some recommendations?
    >
    > Thanks!
    > Golshan
    >
    >
    > Golshan Javadian Ph.D.
    > Assistant Professor of Management, Graves School of Business and Management, Morgan State University
    > (443) 885-4289 | golshan.javadian@morgan.edu |
    > 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane Baltimore, MD 21251
    >
    >
    > Get a signature like this: Click here!