Psychological well-being of employees working for business organizations with a normative organizational identity
Journal title STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
Author/s Marco Guerci, Francesca De Battisti, Elena Siletti, Vojkan Nedkowski
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2
Language English Pages 23 P. 145-167 File size 424 KB
DOI 10.3280/SO2021-002006
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Organizational identity - i.e. the employees’ shared perception about their or-ganization’s central, distinctive, and enduring qualities - has important effects on employee well-being. Specifically, business organizations are characterized by an instrumental organizational identity, which intends organizational effectiveness as shareholders’ value maximization; this identity, in some cases, coexists with a normative organizational identity, which intends organizational effectiveness as stakeholders’ value maximization. The paper, based on a survey on a sample of 185 HR managers and professionals in 8 European countries developed in collab-oration with the leading European HR Professional Association, empirically ana-lyzes the effects of this coexistence on employees’ psychological well-being, focus-ing on emotional exhaustion. The extant literature has explored organizational identity mostly by looking at its association with well-being dimensions different from psychological well-being. Valuing the idea that employee well-being is multi-dimensional construct, our results extend extant literature on the effects of norma-tive organizational identity on employees’ well-being. Specific practical implica-tions of the findings are presented, based on the idea that a normative organiza-tional identity constitutes, within business organizations, not only a resource which have positive effects on certain well-being dimensions such as job satisfaction or engagement (which previous literature has shown), but also new demands which could undermine employee psychological well-being.
Keywords: Organizational Identity, Organizational Effectiveness, Emotional Exhaustion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Management, Busi-ness Ethics
Marco Guerci, Francesca De Battisti, Elena Siletti, Vojkan Nedkowski, Psychological well-being of employees working for business organizations with a normative organizational identity in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 2/2021, pp 145-167, DOI: 10.3280/SO2021-002006