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Personal identity: How it moderates the relation between social identity and workplace performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2022

Adnan Ozyilmaz Open the ORCID record for Adnan Ozyilmaz [Opens in a new window]  and
Sema Koc
Adnan Ozyilmaz*
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Department of Business Administration, Carolina University, Patterson School of Business, 420 South Broad Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA
Sema Koc
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Organization, Karadeniz Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences, Trabzon, 61080, Turkey
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Author for correspondence: Adnan Ozyilmaz, E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

The present study benefits from social identity theory to argue that employees' organizational identity interacts with their trust propensity to predict affective organizational commitment and creativity. It used random coefficient regression procedures or multilevel modeling through the generalized linear mixed models command to test its hypothesis because the data that were collected in two of the studies were the nested or dependent data. Employing longitudinal data gathered from 153 participants and their 71 direct managers at a public organization in Study 1, the present study revealed that organizational identity had stronger positive influences on organizational commitment and creativity when participants' trust propensity was high. Employing longitudinal data collected from 210 employees of 32 business organizations and from 49 direct supervisors of the employees in Study 2, the present study reassured that trust propensity moderates the relationship between organizational identity and creativity. The present study contributes to the theory that employees' personal identity accentuates the positive relationship between their social identity and workplace outcomes such that the relationship becomes stronger as employees' personal identity increases.

Keywords

Creativityorganizational belongingnessorganizational commitmentorganizational identitypersonal identitysocial identitytrust propensity
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Journal of Management & Organization , First View , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management

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