Item number | Item descriptions (References) |
Job involvement [92] | |
JI3 | I am very much involved personally in my job. |
JI8 | Most of my personal life goals are job oriented. |
JI9 | I consider my job to be very central to my life. |
Intrinsic job satisfaction [55] | |
IJS4 | The chance to be “somebody” in the community. |
IJS8 | The chance to tell people what to do. |
IJS9 | The chance to do something that makes use of my abilities. |
IJS10 | The freedom to use my own judgment |
Extrinsic job satisfaction [55] | |
EJS1 | The chances for advancement in this job |
EJS2 | The praise I get for doing a good job |
EJS3 | The working conditions |
Affective commitment [113] | |
AC4 | I don’t feel “emotionally attached” to this organization. |
AC5 | I think that I could easily become as attached to another organization as I am to this one. |
AC6 | I don’t feel like “part of the family” at my organization. |
AC8 | I don’t feel a “strong” sense of belonging to my organization. |
Continuance commitment [113] | |
CC2 | It would be very hard for me to leave my organization right now, even if I wanted to. |
CC3 | It wouldn’t be too costly for me to leave my organization now. |
CC4 | Right now, staying with my organization is a matter of necessity as much as desire. |
CC5 | I feel that I have very few options to consider leaving this organization. |
Normative commitment [113] | |
NC4 | One of the major reasons I continue to work in this organization is that I believe loyalty is important and therefore feel a sense of moral obligation to remain. |
NC6 | I was taught to believe in the value of remaining loyal to one organization. |
NC7 | Things were better in the days when people stayed in one organization for most of their careers. |