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The Relevance of Mission Statements: Analysing the antecedents of perceived message quality and its relationship to employee mission engagement

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Although mission statements are deemed effective tools for communicating the goals of public organizations, there is a dearth of research examining how employees perceive mission statements and their effect. Data from 1,418 employees of a Belgian public organization indicate that although perceived mission statement quality and employee mission engagement are positively related, individual acceptance of the mission statement varies within the analysed organization and can be, partially, explained by cognitions and attributes of the message receiver (hierarchical position, perceived self-efficacy and person--organization fit), and employee cognitions regarding the message sender (behavioural integrity) and the message (mission ambiguity).

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  • Sebastian Desmidt, 2016. "The Relevance of Mission Statements: Analysing the antecedents of perceived message quality and its relationship to employee mission engagement," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(6), pages 894-917, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:18:y:2016:i:6:p:894-917
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2015.1051573
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    1. Sheikh Shamim Hasnain, 2020. "A Critical Comparison between Manufacturing and Service Firms’ Mission Statements: Manage Your Firms’ Mission Statements with Care Using Readability and Lexical Techniques," Business Management and Strategy, Macrothink Institute, vol. 11(1), pages 216-231, June.
    2. Julian D. Cortes & Liliana Rivera & Katerina Bohle Carbonell, 2021. "Mission Statements in Universities: Readability and performance," Papers 2104.07438, arXiv.org.
    3. Quan Lin & Yingchang Huang & Ruojin Zhu & Yue Zhang, 2019. "Comparative Analysis of Mission Statements of Chinese and American Fortune 500 Companies: A Study from the Perspective of Linguistics," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-18, September.

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