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Examining professionals’ identification in the workplace: The roles of organizational prestige, work-unit prestige, and professional status

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  • Yan Liu

  • Long Lam

  • Raymond Loi

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Drawing on social identity theory, we hypothesize that professionals develop their organizational and work-unit identifications through organizational prestige and work-unit prestige respectively. We further hypothesize that professional status negatively interacts with organizational prestige and work-unit prestige to affect the development of their organizational and work-unit identifications from the perspectives of self-enhancement and uncertainty reduction. A two-phase survey on 386 hospital nurses in central China provides general support for the hypotheses. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

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  • Yan Liu & Long Lam & Raymond Loi, 2014. "Examining professionals’ identification in the workplace: The roles of organizational prestige, work-unit prestige, and professional status," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 789-810, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:asiapa:v:31:y:2014:i:3:p:789-810
    DOI: 10.1007/s10490-013-9364-6
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