A multi-level investigation of psychological contract breach and organizational identification through the lens of perceived organizational membership: testing a moderated-mediated model

By O. Epitropaki. 2013

179 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Drawing on the perceived organizational membership theoretical framework and the social identity view of dissonance theory, I examined in this study the dynamics of the relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational identification. I included group-level transformational and transactional leadership as well as procedural justice in the hypothesized model as key antecedents for organizational membership processes. I further explored the mediating role of psychological contract breach in the relationship between leadership, procedural justice climate, and organizational identification and proposed separateness–connectedness self-schema as an important moderator of the above mediated relationship. Hierarchical linear modeling results from a sample of 864 employees from 162 work units in 10 Greek organizations indicated that employees' perception of psychological contract breach negatively affected their organizational identification. I also found psychological contract breach to mediate the impact of transformational and transactional leadership on organizational identification. Results further provided support for moderated mediation and showed that the indirect effects of transformational and transactional leadership on identification through psychological contract breach were stronger for employees with a low connectedness self-schema.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/95942a726dea85421120a009ff71ebf156f370e8

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Understanding the changing nature of psychological contracts in 21st century organizations (2017, background): “…and group identification and need fulfillment make up a dynamic set of intimately related cognitive and affective processes that influence the PC (Epitropaki, 2013; Masterson & Stamper, 2003), and examining these factors and processes should enhance our understanding of the underpinnings of…”
“I Identify with Her,” “I Identify with Him”: Unpacking the Dynamics of Personal Identification in Organizations (2016, background): “Examples of equivocal events include entering an organization, engaging in training, gaining a newmanager, hitting a career plateau, receiving new assignments, learning something unexpected about oneself, and experiencing amoderate success (e.g., Conroy&O’LearyKelly, 2014; Epitropaki, 2013; Petrigli”