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Procedural justice and identification with the acquirer: the moderating effects of job continuity, organisational identity strength and organisational similarity
Author(s) -
Edwards Martin R.,
Edwards Tony
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00176.x
Subject(s) - procedural justice , identification (biology) , identity (music) , multinational corporation , similarity (geometry) , economic justice , psychology , organizational identification , sample (material) , interactional justice , business , social psychology , organizational justice , organizational commitment , microeconomics , perception , computer science , economics , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , chemistry , acoustics , biology , chromatography , botany , physics , finance , neuroscience
This study examined factors influencing whether acquired employees identify with their acquirer and the complex role that the different types of continuity play in moderating relationships between procedural justice and post‐acquisition identification. Data were obtained ( n = 156) from a three‐country sample of employees working for a recently acquired multinational. Multiple regressions showed that expected job continuity moderated the relationship between acquirer procedural justice and post‐acquisition identification. Analysis examined combinations of two organisational identity‐related continuity forms (organisational similarity and acquirer organisational identity); results showed complex interactional effects of organisational similarity and acquirer organisational identity on the relationship between justice and identification with the acquirer.