Meyer and Allen Commitment Scale Overview
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Meyer and Allen Work Commitment Scale
I. TECHNICAL SHEET
a) Test Name Organizational Commitment Questionnaire.
b) Name / Authors Meyer and Allen
c) Origin United States
d) Particularity Psychological Information Instrument
e) Objective Know the Type of Organizational Commitment
that individuals present with their organization.
f) Structuring 3 components (Consists of 18 items)
6 items
Continuity Component = 6 items
6 items
II. CHARACTERISTICS OF INVENTORY
a) Type scale Likert
b) Answers There are no good or bad answers
c) Administration Individual or collective
d) Time Approximately 15 min.
e) Utility Development of intervention plans for
organizational level.
f) Age 18 and older
g) Normative data The data provided by is used
the original sample
III. RATING the final score will be obtained by adding
sum the scores achieved in the response of each item.
The scores are assigned as follows:
1 = Totally disagree
2= Moderately disagree
3 = Weakly disagree
4= Neither agree nor disagree
5 = Weakly agree
6= Moderately agree
7= Completely agree
organizational commitment
COMPONENT COMPONENT COMPONENT
AFFECTIVE NORMATIVE CONTINUITY
6 2 1
9 7 3
QUESTIONS 12 8 4
14 10 5
15 11 16
18 13 17
SUB - TOTAL 6 6 6
TOTAL 18
Distribution of the Items:
Affective Component : 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18
Continuity component : 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13
Normative Component : 1, 3, 4, 5, 17, 17
IV. INTERPRETATION
Affective Component: Desire
Continuity Component: Need
Regulatory Component: Duty
V. SCORE
The authors have established the following to interpret the test:
High Score 126 more
Average score 19 to 125
Low Score 18 points
VI. PSYCHOMETRIC ASPECTS
In a study conducted by Arias Galicia, Mercado, and Belausteguigoitia
(1998) it was found that the test has content validity (p<0.05) and
reliability by the internal consistency method of: Alpha of
Crombach of 0.81 for affective commitment, of 0.82 for commitment
regulatory and 0.48 for commitment to continuity.
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
a) You will be presented with some closed questions, which you will have to
respond by indicating the alternative that best matches your feelings towards
the organization.
b) You must express your agreement or disagreement with each of the
statements that would be presented to them, using the 7-point scale
offered below:
CATEGORIES
1= Totally disagree
2= Moderately disagree
3 = Weakly disagree
4= Neither agree nor disagree
5 = Weakly agree
6 = Moderately agree
7 = Completely agree
Example
If you feel highly identified with your organization and are not
willing to let it go, in this case I would put the number 7 in the box at
start of the next question.
If I received an offer for a better job elsewhere, I would feel
that it is not right to leave my organization.
To respond, please indicate the option that best reflects your opinion.
If I hadn't invested so much of myself in this
organization, I would consider working somewhere else.
2) Even if it were advantageous for me, I do not feel that it is right.
resign from my organization now.
If I wanted to resign from the organization, it is currently a matter
both of necessity and of desire.
4) Remaining in my organization currently is a matter of both
of necessity as well as of desire.
5) If I resigned from this organization, I think I would have very few
alternative options.
I would be very happy if I worked the rest of my life in this.
organization.
I would feel guilty if I resigned from my organization in this.
moment.
This organization deserves my loyalty.
I really feel the problems of my organization as
own.
I feel no obligation to stay with my employer
actual
I would not resign from my organization now because I feel
grateful to the people in it.
This organization has a high degree of significance for me.
personal.
I owe a lot to my organization.
I don't feel like 'part of the family' in my organization.
I don't have a strong sense of belonging towards myself.
organization.
One of the few important consequences of giving this up
a serious organization would be the lack of alternatives.
It would be very difficult for me at this moment to leave my organization.
even if I wanted to.
I do not feel 'emotionally connected' to this organization.