Individual and Organisational Values and

Organisational Commitment
Instructions:
1. Please complete the Individual and Organisational (University) Values
and Organisational commitment questionnaire.
2. Please indicate how important each of the Individual values are to
YOU by circling your response where 1 = extremely unimportant and
7 = extremely important.
3. Rank your individual values in order of importance
4. Please circle the appropriate response to indicate the importance you
believe THIS UNIVERSITY (or your own organisation) places on
each of the following values.
5. Rank your perception of the Universitys (or your own organisations)
values in order of importance.
6. Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following
statements on commitment to the university (or your organisation) by
circling your response, where 1 is strong disagreement and 7 is strong
agreement.
7. Rank your attitudes to commitment to the organisation/university in
order of importance.

Individual values are broad beliefs that represent our basic

convictions and ideas of what kind of action or behaviour
is right, good, desirable or preferable over others.
Please indicate how important each of the following
values are to YOU by circling your response where 1 is
extremely unimportant and 7 is extremely important.

Extremely
Unimportant

Extremely
Important

1.

Adaptability - being flexible and changing in response to new

circumstances

2.

Cautiousness - being cautious and minimising exposure to risk

3.

Consideration - being caring, kind and considerate

4.

Cooperation - being cooperative and working well with others

5.

Courtesy - being polite and having respect for individual dignity

6.

Creativity - developing new ideas and applying innovative

approaches

7.

Development - achieving personal growth, learning and

development

8.

Economy & Efficiency - being thrifty and careful in spending

9.

Forgiveness - being forgiving and understanding when errors occur

10. Formality - upholding proper ceremony and maintaining tradition

11. Initiative - seizing opportunity and taking responsibility without

hesitation

12. Obedience - complying with directions and conforming to rules

13. Orderliness - being neat, tidy and well organised

Rank

Organisational values are broad beliefs that represent

basic convictions and ideas of what kind of
organisational action or behaviour is right, good,
desirable or preferable over others. They guide actions
and judgements across a variety of organisational
situations.
Please circle the appropriate response to indicate the
importance you believe THIS UNIVERSITY (or your
own organisattion) places on each of the following
values.
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Adaptability - being flexible and changing in response to new

circumstances

Extremely
Unimportant

Extremely
Important

Creativity - developing new ideas and applying innovative

approaches

Development - achieving personal growth, learning and

development

Cautiousness - being cautious and minimising exposure to risk

Consideration - being caring, kind and considerate

Cooperation - being cooperative and working well with others

Courtesy - being polite and having respect for individual dignity

Economy & Efficiency - being thrifty and careful in spending

Forgiveness - being forgiving and understanding when errors occur

10. Formality - upholding proper ceremony and maintaining tradition

11. Initiative - seizing opportunity and taking responsibility without

hesitation
12. Obedience - complying with directions and conforming to rules

13. Orderliness - being neat, tidy and well organised

Rank

Affective commitment refers to an employee's emotional

attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a
particular organisation.
Extremely
Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the Unimportant
following statements on commitment to the university (or
your organisation) by circling your response, where 1 is
strong disagreement and 7 is strong agreement.

Extremely
Important

1. I am willing to put in a great deal of effort beyond that normally

expected in order to help this university (organisation) to be
successful.

2. I talk up this university (organisation) to my friends as a great place to

study/work.

3. I find that my values and the universitys (organisations) values are

very similar

4. I am proud to tell others that I am part of this university (organisation)

5. This university (organisation) really inspires the very best in me in the

way of performance of my studies/work

6. I am extremely glad that I chose this university (organisation) to study

at / work in over others I was considering at the time I joined

7. I really care about the fate of this university (organisation)

Please Note: Research findings indicate that the individual and organisational
values cluster into 3 distinct factors (Abbott, G. N., White, F.A., & Charles, M. A. (2005).

Linking values and organisational commitment: A correlational and experimental investigation in two
organisations. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 78, 531-551; Lawrence A, &
Lawrence P. (2009). Values Congruence and organisational commitment: P-O fit in higher education
institutions.Journal of Academic Ethics, (2009) 7, 297-314).

The first factor, labelled Humanity values consisted of four items:

Questions 3,4, 5, and 9: consideration, cooperation, courtesy, and forgiveness
The second factor, labelled Vision values contained four items:
Questions 1, 6, 7, 11: adaptability, creativity, development, and initiative
The third factor, labelled Conservatism values contained five items: Questions
2,8,10,12,13: cautiousness, economy, formality, obedience, and orderliness
You could compare your responses to the research findings by adding the scores for each of
these questions and dividing by the number of questions.

Rank