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Właściwości psychometryczne polskiej wersji skali przywiązania do organizacji
Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of Organizational Commitment Scale

Author(s): Marcin Wnuk
Subject(s): Organizational Psychology, Behaviorism, Management and complex organizations, Marketing / Advertising
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: job satisfaction; person–organization fit; organizational commitment; organizational health; perceived organizational support; perceived supervisor support;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study was assesses the psychometric properties of the Polish version of Organizational Commitment Scale. This measure comprises of 18 itemised questions designed to measure three aspects of organizational commitment: affective, continuance and normative. Subjects were 484 employs from one organization. The following measures were used: Perceived Organizational Support Scale, Perceived Supervisor Support Scale, Person–Organization (P–O) Fit Scale and two measures – regarding intention to leave and job satisfaction. Polish version of Organizational Commitment Scale was found to be highly reliable when evaluated by the Cronbach’s α procedure as well as having a good internal consistency. Factor analysis statistically confirmed the three dimensional structure of this measure inclusive emotional, continuance and normative commitment. Noticed statistically significant correlation between three organizational commitment dimension and perceived organizational support, perceived supervisor support, job satisfaction, person–organization fit as well as intention to quit. It was proof that Polish version of Organizational Commitment Scale has a good convergent validity. The presented outcomes thus provide further evidence that the aforementioned measure has a good psychometric properties and is therefore recommended for use by researchers studying the construct of organizational commitment. Additionally this Polish version of Organizational Commitment Scale has better psychometric properties than last version.

  • Issue Year: 177/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 109-125
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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