The effect of item content overlap on organizational commitment questionnaire-turnover cognitions relationships

This study examined the effect of overlapping scale content when certain it ems in the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) are used to predic t turnover cognition measures. Analyses of judgmental data collected from 2 5 subject matter experts suggested that 6 OCQ items reflected a desire or a n intent to retain membership in one's organization. Confirmatory factor an alyses of survey data from 172 master of business administration alumni sho wed that the 6 OCQ retention items shared overlapping content with turnover cognitions items. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses of survey data from 330 hotel managers showed that (a) removing the 6 OCQ retention items caused a significant decrease in the variance explained in a measure of tu rnover cognitions and (b) the size of this effect is larger than that sugge sted by previous work.