This paper summarizes a stream of research aimed at developing and validating
a measure of employee commitment to work organizations. The instrument.
developed by Porter and his colleagues, is called the Organizational Commitment
Questionnaire (OCQ). Based on a series of studies among 2563 employees in nine
divergent organizations, satisfactory test-retest reliabilities and internal consistency
reliabilities were found. In addition, cross-validated evidence of acceptable
levels of predictive, convergent, and discriminant validity emerged for the instrument.
Norms for males and females are presented based on the available sample.
Possible instrument limitations and future research needs on the measurement and
study of organizational commitment are reviewed.