Investigating the "We" in Me: Within-Person Fluctuations in Organizational Identification
Learn more about recent research suggesting that employees' attachment to their organization varies over time, which sheds new light on our understanding of the factors that influence our connection with our workplace.

SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT: Organizational identification (OID) is a component of organizational attachment reflecting the degree to which individuals consider their membership in a specific organization as self-defining. To date, research has treated OID as a static construct, assuming that it remains temporally stable over time once initially established. However, several theorists have raised the possibility that OID could be more dynamic than traditionally thought, at least when examined in the short term. Using an experience-sampling daily diary design, we examine the extent to which employees fluctuate in their daily level of OID and test potential predictors and outcomes of these within-person changes.

