PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF URDU TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (OCQ) IN PAKISTAN
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
The focus of the present study was to establish the psychometric properties of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ, Revised Version of Meyer, Allen & Smith, 1993) according to Pakistani culture. Translation and adaptation process accomplished with forward and backward translation of OCQ. After that pilot study was conducted over the sample of 45 teachers in order to check out cross language validation of English and newly adapted version (Urdu) of OCQ and it was found significant correlation (r=.766, p<.000) between original and adapted version of OCQ. In next step, the adapted version of OCQ was administered on the sample of 261 teachers of schools, colleges and universities of Karachi, Pakistan with age range of 25-40 years (M=33.34 & SD=4.66). The reliability of OCQ was established through Cronbach’s Alpha=.84, Split-half reliability coefficient is .72, and test-retest validity r=.905 was established on the sample of 42 teacher. The findings reported that the adapted version of OCQ is reliable for the Pakistani culture to assess employees’ organizational commitment.
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Qasir Abbas, Sarwat Khanam
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