title: Perceived organizational support and perceived external prestige: predicting organizational attachment for university faculty, staff, and administrators.
abstract: The present article introduces a social-exchange model of organizational attachment incorporating both direct exchange and indirect exchange. Participants were 325 university employees. The present results indicated that perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived external prestige (PEP) both contribute to organizational attachment. Further, the results showed that the extent to which POS and PEP are related to organizational attachment is moderated by occupational proxies of cosmopolitan-local role orientation. POS was more strongly related to the affective commitment and withdrawal cognitions of staff and administrators than to those of faculty. PEP was more strongly related to affective commitment and withdrawal cognitions of university faculty than to those of university staff and administrators. The authors discussed the need to incorporate relational variables such as PEP into other social-exchange frameworks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Information Systems, Ruston Louisiana Tech University, USA.
authors.forename: J Bryan
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hester
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: Len
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frey
authors.forename: Clint
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Relyea
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012923:Social Class; D012938:Social Perception; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000078329:Workforce