This study examined the factor structure of the Organizational Identification Question-naire (OIQ), the most widely used instrument today for the assessment of organizational identification. An analysis of a sample of social service employees in the southwestern United States (N = 369) yielded four first-order and two second-order components. This study contributes to the research literature pertaining to the structure of the OIQ.
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