Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) helps measure employee's organizational commitment. It is a 15-item scale developed by Mowday, Steers and Porter ( Mowday et al., 1979) and uses a 5-point Likert type response format, with 3 factors that can describe this commitment:

willingness to exert effort,
desire to maintain membership in the organization, and
acceptance of organizational values.

1. I am willing to put in a great deal of effort beyond that normally expected in to help this be successful.

2. I talk up this to my friends as a great to work for.

3. I feel very little loyalty to this . (R)

4. I would accept almost any type of job assignment in to keep working for this .

5. I find that my values and the ’s values are very similar.

6. I am proud to tell others that I am part of this .

7. I could just as well be working for a different as long as the type of work was similar. (R)

8. This really inspires the very best in me in the way of job .

9. It would take very little change in my present circumstances to me to leave this . (R)

10. I am extremely glad that I chose this to work for over others I was considering at the time I joined.

11. There’s not too much to be gained by sticking with this indefinitely. (R)

12. Often. I find it difficult to agree with this ’s policies on important matters relating to its employees. (R)

13. I really care about the fate of this .

14. For me this is the best of all possible organizations for which to work.

15. Deciding to work for this was a definite mistake on my part. (R)

(1) strongly disagree: (2) moderately disagree: (3) slightly disagree: (4) neither disagree nor agree: (5) slightly agree: (6) moderately agree: (7) strongly agree. An "R" denotes a negatively phrased and reverse scored item.

1. I am willing to put in a great deal of effort beyond that normally expected in to help this be successful.

2. I talk up this to my friends as a great to work for.

3. I would accept almost any type of job assignment in to keep working for this .

4. I find that my values and the organizations values are similar.

5. I am proud to tell others that I am part of this .

6. This really inspires the very best in me in the way of job .

7. I am extremely glad that I chose this to work for over others I was considering at the time I joined.

8. I really care about the fate of this .

9. For me this is the best of all possible organizations for which to work.

This instrument can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0001879179900721 & http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/092/r18e_e.pdf

Porter‚ L. W. & Smith‚ F. J.(1970). The etiology of organizational commitment. Unpublished manuscript‚ University of California at Irvine.

Mowday‚ R. T.‚ Steers‚ R. M. & Porter‚ L. W. (1979). The Measurement of organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior‚ 14‚ 224-247.

Mowday‚ R. T.‚ Porter‚ L. W. & Steers‚ R. M. (1982). Employee-organization linkages: The psychology of commitment ‚ absenteeism‚ and turnover. New York: Academic Press.

Douglas. Stephen Michael. (2010). Department of Educational Leadership‚ Policy‚ and Technology Studies. University of Alabama. Doctoral dissertation.

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