A Meta-Analytic Review of Identification at Work: Relative Contribution of Team, Organizational, and Professional Identification

Greco, LM (通讯作者),Oklahoma State Univ, Spears Sch Business, 452 Business Bldg, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA.
2022-5
Research on social identification in organizations is diverse and evolving. As focus has shifted to the effects of multiple identities, there is a need to further define relationships between the three primary work identification targets (i.e., team, organization, and profession) and outcomes, specifically as to how each identification target explains variance in outcomes simultaneously. We meta-analytically test the relationship between each identification target and fifteen attitudes, three behaviors, and five general well-being variables at work with 483 studies and 557 independent samples (N = 179,442). We then provide evidence for the relative importance of each identification target through meta-analytic relative weights and regression analysis. Categorizing attitudes according to the same level (team, organization, profession), we found that organizational and team identification were most important in predicting matching attitudes, in support of the identity-matching principle. For professional-focused attitudes, behaviors, and general well-being, results were less clear; each identity target explained a range of variance in outcomes. There was a trend of team identification being the most important predictor, particularly for well-being. Through meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM), we tested the self-esteem hypothesis from social identity theory; results show that effects from identification to outcomes transmitted through self-esteem were weaker than direct effects.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
卷号:107|期号:5|页码:795-830
ISSN:0021-9010|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Xavier University
被引频次(WOS)
13
被引频次(其他)
13
180天使用计数
58
2013以来使用计数
138
EISSN
1939-1854
出版年
2022-5
DOI
10.1037/apl0000941
学科领域
循证管理学
关键词
team identification organizational identification professional identification social identity theory meta-analysis
WOS学科分类
Psychology, Applied Management