Marique, Géraldine
[UCL]
Stinglhamber, Florence
[UCL]
Desmette, Donatienne
[UCL]
Hanin, Dorothée
[UCL]
Hansez, Isabelle
[ULg]
Bertrand, Françoise
[ULg]
It is widely recognized that the relationship between employees and their organization has a major impact on their attitudes and behaviors at work. This relationship has typically been conceptualized in terms of organizational identification (OI) or affective commitment (AC) in the organizational behavior literature. Although several studies have empirically supported the distinction between OI and AC, there is still disagreement regarding how these two concepts are related. Indeed, little attention has been given to the direction of causality between these two constructs, the role of one concept in the development of the other, or the behavioral consequences of the OI-AC relationship. This research was designed to fill these gaps. Using a cross-lagged panel design with two measurement times, Study 1 (N = 695) examined the directionality of the relationship between OI and AC, and showed that OI is positively related to temporal change in AC, confirming the antecedence of OI on AC. Using a cross-sectional design, Study 2 (N = 1723) investigated the mediating role of OI in the relationship between three work experiences (i.e., perceived organizational support, leader-member exchange, and job autonomy) and AC, and found that OI partially mediates the influence of work experiences on AC. Finally, Study 3 (N = 1012) examined longitudinally how OI and AC combine in the prediction of actual turnover, and showed that AC totally mediates the relationship between OI and turnover. Overall, these findings suggest that favorable work experiences operate via OI to increase employees' AC that, in turn, decreases employee turnover.
Bibliographic reference |
Marique, Géraldine ; Stinglhamber, Florence ; Desmette, Donatienne ; Hanin, Dorothée ; Hansez, Isabelle ; et. al. A new insight on the relationship between organizational identification and affective commitment.Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) (Louvain-la-Neuve, 28/05/2013). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/142739 |