ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION: CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTS

Abstract

Today, one of the main problems of organizations is the harmonization of the goals of the employees and their organizations. The concept of organizational identification is defined as the perception of coalescence into one of the employee and his organization. The success or failure of the organization is seen as the success or failure of the employee by high level organizational identificated employees. These employees accept the goals, objectives and values of their organizations as the employees' own goals, objectives and values, so all the efforts are made for the success of the organization within this framework. The concept of organizational identification, which affects the benefits of employees and the organization, is accepted as one of the most important issues in the field of organizational behavior. It is considered that knowing the concept of organizational identification and the factors that affect organizational identification or the factors that are affected by organizational identification will be beneficial for organizational behavior field and organizational managers. In this framework, the literature on organizational identification was reviewed, and then the effects of organizational identification at the individual and organizational level were discussed in this study.