IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ris/buecrj/0005.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Exploring the Role of Perceived External Prestige in Employee’s Emotional Appeal: Evidence from a Textile Firm

Author

Listed:
  • Ciftcioglu, Aydem

    (Uludag University)

Abstract

Perceived external prestige (PEP) is an new interesting topic in the organizational literature however limited study have sought to investigate its’ impacts on employees working attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate PEP influence on employee’s emotional appeals toward working organization. The data used in this study taken from 200 employees which were worked in well-known textile industry firm. Employees’ commitment to their organization was assessed with the six-item affective commitment instrument which was developed by Meyer et.al. (1990, 1991) and individual’s organizational identification and PEP were measured by Mael and Ashforth (1992) six-item organizational identification and external prestige scale where job satisfaction assessed with Michigan Organizational Evaluation Scale’s shorten sub-scales (Spector, 1997). Hierarchical regression analysis was used to estimate the relationship between PEP and positive work variables relationship. The results showed that PEP was an impact on affective commitment by full mediating role of job satisfaction and organizational identification.

Suggested Citation

  • Ciftcioglu, Aydem, 2010. "Exploring the Role of Perceived External Prestige in Employee’s Emotional Appeal: Evidence from a Textile Firm," Business and Economics Research Journal, Uludag University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, vol. 1(4), pages 1-85, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:buecrj:0005
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.berjournal.com/?p=702
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Perceived external prestige; Affective commitment; Organizational identification; Job satisfaction; Reputation; Hierarchical regression analysis;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:buecrj:0005. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Adem Anbar (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iiulutr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.