Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among perceived external
prestige (PEP), perceived internal respect (PIR), organizational and work-group identification (OID
and WID), and counterproductive work behavior (CWB).
Design/methodology/approach – Data were gathered from a cement firm’s employees, using
longitudinal research. Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation
modeling were employed.
Findings – PEP and top management respect were positively related to organizational identification
(OID), and the latter negatively related to organizational deviance; perceived co-workers and
supervisor respect was positively related to WID, and the latter negatively related to interpersonal
deviance; and identification foci mediated the relationship between status judgments and CWB.
Research limitations/implications – The sample was based on one organization, limiting the
results’ generalizability, and interactive relationships between WID and OID were not considered.
The findings’ implications suggest that organizations need specific strategies for reducing deviant
organizational behavior and deviant interpersonal behavior, and for fostering identification of their
members.
Originality/value – The study shows that employees’ evaluations of prestige and respect are
important predictors of their identification with their organization and work group. It is the first study
to investigate the relationship between social identification foci and deviant work behaviors as a
negative outcome of identification. It developed a new scale to assess employees’ perception of internal
respect; it supports operationalizing PIR as a multifoci construct. It has also answered the call for
longitudinal research as opposed to cross-sectional research.
تاريخ النشر
03/06/2014
الناشر
Journal of Managerial Psychology
رابط DOI
DOI 10.110
الكلمات المفتاحية
Counterproductive work behaviour, Identification foci, Perceived external prestige,
Perceived inter
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