中心副教授刘艳以通讯作者身份在Journal of Managerial Psychology发表论文: “The identity-based explanation of affective commitment”.
Journal of Managerial Psychology致力于发表管理心理学和人力资源管理的实证性和规范性的论文，该刊物被很多机构及数据库收录，也是SSCI期刊之一，是武汉大学经济与管理学院B类奖励刊物。
Purpose – Drawing on social identity and self-categorization theories and building on Meyer and Herscovitch’s (2001) work on affective commitment, this study aimed to examine the relationship between organizational identification and affective commitment, and the relationships between these two variables and employees’ attitude and behavior.
Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected on-site from 158 automobile dealership employees in central China. Regression analysis and hierarchical linear modeling were used to analyze the survey data.
Findings – Organizational identification was positively related to affective commitment. Affective commitment was negatively related to turnover intention and positively related to job performance. Affective commitment mediated the relationship between organizational identification and turnover intention, but did not mediate the relationship between organizational identification and job performance.
Research limitations/implications – This study contributes to the literature by integrating organizational identification and affective commitment, the two distinct types of employees’ organizational attachment. However, results should be cautioned with the limitations of the study.
Practical implications – Managers can use employees’ organizational identification to foster affective commitment since it leads to a variety of positive work attitudes and behavior.
Social implications – Society as a whole may benefit by having more loyal and committed workforce in organizations.
Originality value – This study develops a model that aligns employee commitment and identification. Doing so answers the call for more efforts to integrate the two forms of organizational attachment in order to make more progress in this line of research.
Key words: Affective commitment, Organizational identification, Social identity, self-categorization
Citation: Lam, L. W., Liu, Y.,(2014), The identity-based explanation of affective commitment, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 29(3), 321-340
