Perceived Organizational Support and Organizational Identification: The Mediating Role of Fit to Organization

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 277 - 291, 30.06.2019

Özcan Zorlu , Ali Avan , Ahmet Baytok

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of perceived
organizational support (POS) on organizational identification (OI) and to test the
mediating role of fit to organization (FO) within the context of academicians. Data
are collected from 193 academicians by questionnaire. Correlation and
Regression analyses are performed to test the research hypotheses. Results show
that there is a strong correlation among variables and
perceived organizational support is a significant contributor to
organizational identification. Moreover, POS has an insignificant effect on OI,
while FO significantly affects OI. With reference to Regression analysis, we
also performed the Sobel test in order to determine the significance of the
mediator effect. Sobel test results confirm that fit into organization of
participants has a significant effect on OI; meanwhile, it is a mediator
between organizational support perceived by participants and their
organizational identification.

Keywords

Perceived organizational support, person-organization fit, organizational identification

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