Predictoren van de binding met een fusieorganisatie: een sociaal-psychologisch onderzoek bij personeelsleden werkzaam in de Vlaamse Centra Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg

Korte inhoud:Research reveals that employees with a strong organizational commitment report more well-being, stronger job involvement, and are less inclined to leave their organisation. While more and more organisations are involved in a merger, a growing number of studies also show that employees have difficulties to commit themselves to the newly formed merger organisation. We therefore conducted a survey study (N = 188) to examine which of nine proposed factors predict organizational commitment among employees of merged community centres for mental health. These factors were derived from studies inspired by the social identity approach. Commitment with the merger organisation was significantly predicted by four factors: successful functioning of the new merger centre, pre-merger commitment, perceived merger necessity and perceived continuity of the pre-merger group. Based on these results, we propose a number of practical suggestions that seem useful to strengthen commitment with a merged organisation.

Jaar van publicatie:2008

Trefwoorden:Psychologie en gedragswetenschappen

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BOF-publication weight:0.1

CSS-citation score:1

Authors from:Higher Education

Reviewstatus:Peer-reviewed