ABSTRACT
Cheney’s work on organizational identification falls within the thrust of scholarship that investigates individuals’ linkages with an organization. Originally piloted with 30 items, the version of the Organizational Identification Questionnaire (OIQ) contains 25 items, which are scored on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from very strong agreement to very strong disagreement. G. Cheney’s work on organizational identification falls within the thrust of scholarship that investigates individuals’ linkages with an organization. Because the OIQ contains only 25 items, it is easy to use and has been found to be generally consistent with other instruments that measure identification and organizational commitment. little normative data are available for the OIQ. Also, care should be taken when comparing results across studies using the different commitment instruments because although they are similar, they also have important differences in the way that identification or commitment is conceptualized. J. Barge and D. Schlueter pointed to one important difference that sets the OIQ apart from the others.
