“…It has been operationalised through several instruments, including the most widely used Occupational Commitment Questionnaire (Meyer & Allen, 1984, 1991 -also known as the Three-Component Model Employee Commitment Survey or the Organisational Commitment Scale (Allen & Meyer, 2000). Research based on Meyer and his colleagues' work has been conducted internationally in various types of organisations, both academic and non-academic (Brown & Sargeant, 2007). In higher education settings, the three-component model has gained empirical support in different cultural contexts, including North America (Gutierrez et al, 2012), Europe (Eisinga, Teelken, & Doorewaard, 2010), Africa (Mohammed, Othman, & D'Silva, 2012) and a number of countries in Asia such as Iran (Amirtash, Mozafari, Mehri, Nasiri, & Salehian, 2011), Pakistan (Farooq, Irfan, & Farooq, 2011) and Mainland China (Wang, 2010).…”