The Relationship Between Perceived Organizational Support and Affective Commitment: A Social Identity Perspective

The present research examines how the social identity perspective contrib-utes to a better understanding of the relationships between perceived organi-zational support, affective commitment, and employees ’ performance at work. Using a sample of 253 employees from an engineering company, Study 1 found that organizational identification partially mediates the relationship between perceived organizational support and affective commitment. The results of Study 1 also indicated that the relationship between perceived organizational support and organizational identification is moderated by organizational pres-tige. In Study 2, using a sample of 179 postal employees, the authors replicated the mediating role of organizational identification in the relationship between perceived organizational support and affective commitment and found that affective commitment mediates the relationship between organizational iden-tification and supervisor’s ratings of extra-role performance. at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on May 10, 2016gom.sagepub.comDownloaded fro