Organizational Images and Member Identification

Leader-member exchange and affective organizational commitment: the contribution of supervisor's organizational embodiment.

In order to account for wide variation in the relationship between leader-member exchange and employees' affective organizational commitment, we propose a concept termed supervisor's organizational embodiment (SOE), which involves the extent to which employees identify their supervisor with the organization. With samples of 251 social service employees in the United States (Study 1) and 346 emp...

Identification and Member Commitment to Agricultural Cooperatives

Employees’ Organizational Identification and Affective Organizational Commitment: An Integrative Approach

Although several studies have empirically supported the distinction between organizational identification (OI) and affective commitment (AC), there is still disagreement regarding how they are related. Precisely, little attention has been given to the direction of causality between these two constructs and as to why they have common antecedents and outcomes. This research was designed to fill t...

Linking ethical leadership to employee performance: The roles of leader–member exchange, self-efficacy, and organizational identification

This research investigated the link between ethical leadership and performance using data from the People’s Republic of China. Consistent with social exchange, social learning, and social identity theories, we examined leader–member exchange (LMX), self-efficacy, and organizational identification as mediators of the ethical leadership to performance relationship. Results from 72 supervisors and...

The incremental validity of organizational commitment, organizational trust, and organizational identification

Article history: Received 17 December 2014 Available online 11 March 2015 Organizational commitment (OC), organizational trust (OT), and organizational identification (OI) are three types of psychological attachment to an organization. Each of these three variables captures an organization-targeted attitude toward an employment relationship, but it is unclear whether they have incremental valid...