A Construct Validity Study of the Survey of Perceived Organizational Support
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measure of perceived employer commitment that they called the Survey of Perceived Organiza-tional Support (SPOS). In the present study, confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the dimensionality of the SPOS and to determine the distinctiveness of this construct from other similar constructs. Participants were 330 employees in a large corporation headquartered in the southeastern United States. The results support the SPOS as a unidimensional scale that is distin-guishable from affective and continuance commitment. However, the data raise some question as to the empirical distinction between the SPOS and satisfaction. A great deal of research has been conducted on the concept of organizational commitment (Mowday, Porter, & Steers, 1982). Many other commitment concepts have been proposed and researched as well (Morrow, 1983), such as job involvement (Lodahl & Kejner, 1965; Kanungo, 1979), career salience (Greenhaus, 1971), union commitment (Gordon, Philpot, Burt, Thompson, & Spiller, 1980), and occupational commitment (Vandenberg & Scarpello, 1988). Each of these attitudes focuses on the individual's attachment to a particular aspect of the work situation, such as a job, union, or organization. What has been less thoroughly studied are employee perceptions of employer commitment to the individual (i.e., perceived organizational support).
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Once employees think that the organization treats them well, they will be willing to show behaviors that are beneficial to the organization and reflect them in their work attitude or behavior.
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Background
- Authors
- Shore, L. M., & Tetrick, L. E.
- ORCID
- Shore, Lynn M.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 1991-10
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 637-643
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2154703907
- Cited by
- 676
- References
- 28
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- FWCI
- 4.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Employee Performance and Management
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Keywords
- perceived organizational support, construct validity, organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuance commitment, job satisfaction, employee perceptions, scale dimensionality
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