Three-Component Model Scale
Description of the Three-Component Model Scale
Many researchers have shown an interest in organizational commitment. Scholars have noticed an increasing need, in particular, to pinpoint the elements that encourage dedication to one’s profession. Therefore, the three-component model scale has been heavily utilized in the study to build a better understanding of the concept of commitment.
Meyer and Allen’s Three-component model scale improves the prior organizational commitment literature. At first, behavioural intention and attitudinal attachment were thought to be the main methods for assessing an employee’s commitment (Limpanitgul et al., 2017). The two researchers created a model that contends that commitment to an organization is founded on passionate, continual, and normative commitment, contradicting the existing literature (Limpanitgul et al., 2017). As a result, the “Affective Commitment Scale (ACS), Continuance Commitment Scale (CCS), and Normative Commitment Scale (NCS)” were developed as three scales of measurement (Koskei, Kimutai & Bogonko, 2018). But over time, some of the scales’ components have undergone revisions.
Items on the three scales define the design of each component. For instance, affective commitment is an emotional bond with a career or organization (Tadesse, 2019). This affection is frequently expressed in the ties between coworkers or their ideas of their significance inside the company (Al-Jabari & Ghazzawi, 2019). Researchers can use the language questions in ASC to assess the affective commitment of an employee (Uraon, 2017). The measure considers statements like “this company has enormous personal relevance to me,” which expresses admiration for a corporation (Betanzos-Diaz, Rodriguez-Loredo & Paz-Rodrigues, 2017). Similar to normative commitment, which occurs when staff members believe they should remain with a company, there are related subscales (Cherian, Alkhatib, Aggarwal, 2018). Normative language, such as “This company deserves my loyalty,” demonstrates that an employee’s dedication is required (Betanzos-Diaz et al., 2017).