Exploring the linkages between formal ownership and psychological ownership for the organization: The mediating role of organizational justice
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Nai-Wen Chi
Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Nai-Wen Chi, Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei 116, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorTzu-Shian Han
Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Nai-Wen Chi
Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Nai-Wen Chi, Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei 116, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorTzu-Shian Han
Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Extending previous research on formal ownership and psychological ownership in organizations, this study simultaneously examines the relationships between employee participation in three formal ownership programmes (i.e. profit sharing, participation in decision making, access to business information) and psychological ownership for the organization, while also exploring the mediating roles of distributive and procedural justice. Data were collected from 387 R&D engineers based at 20 high-technology firms in Taiwan. A structural equation modelling analysis was conducted to test our hypotheses, and the results show that employee participation in profit sharing, decision making, and access to business information were all positively related to psychological ownership. Moreover, distributive justice fully mediated the relationship between participation in profit sharing and psychological ownership, while procedural justice mediated the relationship between participation in decision making, access to business information, and psychological ownership.
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