Abstract no. 53: Translation and psychometric properties of an Arabic version of The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) in Saudi Arabia. Mansour Al-Yami The University of Sheffield The aim of this study was to translate the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) from English into Arabic and to examine the psychometric properties of the translated version. The OCQ has been widely validated and used in different cultures, but currently there is no evaluated Arabic version. A survey design incorporating a translated version of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire was used and the data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis. Result indicated that two different factors were underlying Arabic participants responses to the Arabic version of the OCQ items and that these factors were highly internally consistent. This paper conclude that the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire has a twofactor structure and that an Arabic version of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire could applied in studies of organizational commitment in Arabic populations.
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