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Extending the expanded model of organizational identification to occupations
Author(s) -
Ashforth Blake E.,
Joshi Mahendra,
Anand Vikas,
O'LearyKelly Anne M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12190
Subject(s) - identification (biology) , organizational identification , psychology , situational ethics , set (abstract data type) , social psychology , ambivalence , phenomenon , computer science , organizational commitment , epistemology , philosophy , botany , biology , programming language
We extend K reiner and A shforth's (2004) research on the expanded model of organizational identification to the occupational level of self. A survey of 251 customer service representatives from an I ndian call center indicates that occupational identification, occupational disidentification, ambivalent occupational identification, and neutral occupational identification are empirically differentiable. Further, each form of identification in the expanded model was related to certain predictors from a set of ten situational and individual difference variables, and to certain outcomes from a set of five adjustment variables. The differing patterns of antecedents and outcomes for each form of occupational identification suggest that each form constitutes a relatively unique phenomenon.