The paper focuses on the process of revalidation of established research instruments in a new context. It demonstrates how Meyer and Allen's Organizational Commitment Scale was revalidated for application in India. Data were collected from 120 respondents from a number of auto-ancillary industries. Appropriate statistical software packages were used to assess reliability, validity, and unidimensionality of each sub-scale.
The
modern concept of commitment had its presence from the 19th century in Fayol's principles of management (Fayol, 1949).
He believed that organizational interest must always take
preference over the individual interest i.e., the organization's
interest dominates and Fayol advocated subordination of individual
interest, which can be explained by the concept of commitment.
By
the early 1960s, commitment had emerged as a distinctive construct.
The first definition grows out of Becker's (1960) early work
on the idea of side bets. He argues that individuals make
side bets by staking their reputation for the stability on
the decision to remain with a particular organization. Meanwhile,
the organization makes the side bets for employees through
practices that lock them for continued organizational membership.
So, commitment results when the organizational factors combine
as accumulated investments, rewards and sunk costs that result
in increased tenure and continued organizational membership. |
