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Linking Ethnic Identification to Organisational Solidarity

Author: Dennis Gabriel Pepple

Published in: Public Organization Review | Issue 1/2020

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This paper investigates the process through which ethnic identification (EI) influences employees’ sense of organisational solidarity (OS). A survey of 1525 employees working in different ministries of a state government in Nigeria was collected and analysed by means of a regression to investigate EI-OS relationships. As expected, EI was a significant determinant of OS with co-worker social support explaining the rationale for EI-OS relationship. The conceptualisation of OS as a composite construct that manifest in employees’ self-efficacy, organisational self-identity and employee voice behaviours is novel. The study provides evidence from an under researched area to further generalise existing debates.

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Title: Linking Ethnic Identification to Organisational Solidarity
Author: Dennis Gabriel Pepple
Publication date: 17-12-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Public Organization Review / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 1566-7170
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7098
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-018-00431-3

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