Life In Organizations
Careers
HOW COMMITTED AM I TO MY ORGANIZATION?
Listed below are a series of statements that represent possible feelings that individuals might have about the organization for which they work. With respect to your own feelings about your employing organization, indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement:

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


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


  3. I feel very little loyalty to this organization.


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


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


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


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


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


  9. It would take very little change in my present circumstances to cause me to leave this organization.


  10. I am extremely glad that I chose this organization 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 organization indefinitely.


  12. Often, I find it difficult to agree with this organization's policies on important matters relating to its employees.


  13. I really care about the fate of this organization.


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


  15. Deciding to work for this organization was a definite mistake on my part.


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Source: R. Mowday and R.M. Steers, "The Measurement of Organizational Commitment," Journal of Vocational Behavior, April 1979, pp. 224-47.