Multiple professional identities: Examining differences in identification across work-related targets

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Johnson, MD; Morgeson, FP; Ilgen, DR; Meyer, CJ; Lloyd, JW
• 署名单位: Michigan State University; Michigan State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.2.498
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 498-506
• 关键词: Social identity; job satisfaction; teams; professionals; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

摘要

Although there is a growing literature on organizational identification, relatively little research has investigated other possible targets of identification. In a sample of veterinarians working in a wide range of organizations, the authors compared their identification with the veterinary profession, their organization, and their workgroup. The authors found different patterns of identification across these targets depending on whether the individual (a) worked in a veterinary medicine or nonveterinary medicine organization and (b) was an owner/partner or an associate. Owners of veterinary medicine organizations identified more with the organization than with either the profession or their workgroup. Associates in veterinary medicine organizations identified more with the organization and the workgroup than with the profession. Veterinarians in nonveterinary medicine organizations identified more with the profession and their workgroup than with the organization. Identification with each of the targets provided independent predictive validity of job satisfaction.