Organizational identification versus organizational commitment: self‐definition, social exchange, and job attitudes

Abstract The psychological relationship between individual and organization has been conceptualized both in terms of identification and in terms of (affective) commitment. In the present study, we explore the differences between these two conceptualizations. Building on the proposition that identification is different from commitment in that identification reflects the self‐definitional aspect of organizational membership whereas commitment does not, we propose that commitment is more contingent on social exchange processes that presume that individual and organization are separate entities psychologically, and more closely aligned with (other) job attitudes. In support of these propositions, results of a…

• UL
  Universiteit Leiden
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  Universiteit van Amsterdam
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  Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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  Erasmus+