Identifying organizational identification as a basis for attitudes and behaviors: A meta-analytic review.

2015/01/01 by Eun-Suk Lee, Eun‐Suk Lee, Tae-Youn Park +2 · 28 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · #Basis (linear algebra) #Biology #Customer Service Quality and Loyalty #Engineering #Identification (biology) #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Management science #Mathematics #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies #Organizational commitment #Organizational identification #Psychology #Social psychology

paper · open access · doi:10.1037/bul0000012

published in Psychological Bulletin 141(5), 1049-1080 (American Psychological Association)

openalex publication_date 2015/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

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.

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