"There's no rose without a thorn": Organisational identification, job dedication behaviours and work-to-family conflict

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze organizational identification’s impact on the perception of work-to-family conflict. We also test the mediating role of job dedication. This work innovative since, to our knowledge, there is no empirical study in the literature that appraises the organizational identification consequences for the employee, namely in what concerns its impact on the perception of work-to-family conflict. In order to study these relationships, a survey was answered by 128 members of a Portuguese I&D institution. Data was analyzed with structural equation modeling. The obtained results showed that the higher the level of employee’s organizational identification, the more the job is perceived as interfering with the adequate performance of the individual’s roles in the family domain. Moreover, the results suggest that this impact of the identification on the work-to-family conflict perception is due to the enhancement of employee’s job dedication behaviors of high identifiers, operationalised as the increase in extra working hours.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v21i1.360