title: Identifying Organizational Identification as a Basis for Attitudes and Behaviors: A Meta-Analytic Review.
abstract: Organizational identification has been argued to have a unique value in explaining individual attitudes and behaviors in organizations, as it involves the essential definition of entities (i.e., individual and organizational identities). This review seeks meta-analytic evidence of the argument by examining how this identity-relevant construct functions in the nexus of attitudinal/behavioral constructs. The findings show that, first, organizational identification is significantly associated with key attitudes (job involvement, job satisfaction, and affective organizational commitment) and behaviors (in-role performance and extra-role performance) in organizations. Second, in the classic psychological model of attitude-behavior relations (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), organizational identification is positioned as a basis from which general sets of those attitudes and behaviors are engendered; organizational identification has a direct effect on general behavior above and beyond the effect of general attitude. Third, the effects of organizational identification are moderated by national culture, a higher-level social context wherein the organization is embedded, such that the effects are stronger in a collectivistic culture than in an individualistic culture. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: KAIST College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
authors.forename: Eun-Suk
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.
authors.forename: Tae-Youn
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: KAIST College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
authors.forename: Bonjin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Koo
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D012933:Social Identification; D000066477:Work Performance