The Mediating Role of Organizational Identification in the Relation between Organizational Social Capital, Perceived Organizational Prestige, Perceived Employability and Career Satisfaction

Abstract In career development, a variety of personal, organizational and labor market variables challenge employees and organizations, in particular those in dynamic working environments, such as higher education (HE) institutions. This study examines the association between work history, organizational social capital (OSC) and perceived organizational prestige (POP) as antecedent variables, and perceived employability (PE) and career satisfaction (CS) as outcome variables, as well as the mediating role of organizational identification (OI) in these relations. A sample of 283 workers in Chilean HE institutions filled out an on-line questionnaire, and hypotheses were tested using a mediation model. Results indicated a significant mediation effect of OI, abt = 0.363, 95% CI [0.181, 0.576] abt/c = 31.98%, to explain the relationship between internal perceived employability (IPE) and its predictor variables POP, abpo = 0.102, 95% CI [0.056, 0.160], abpo/c = 9.01%, and OSC, abcsoc = 0.101, 95% CI [0.053, 0.183, abcsoc/c = 8.89%. Promoting a positive image of the organization and its social capital, strengthened by OI, emerge as strategies for HR management oriented toward workers’ career development, with consequent implications for commitment, intention to leave and ultimately for organizational results. The study provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of careers and explains the importance of identification with the organization when the impact of organizational attributes on one’s career is analyzed.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  The Spanish Journal of Psychology

• Publication date

  2021-04-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/SJP.2021.24PMID 33827744
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Healthcare performance

  2021cited by this paper
• The Potential Importance of Social Capital and Job Crafting for Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction among Health-Care Employees

  2020cited by this paper
• Implications of perceived overqualification for employee's close social ties: The moderating role of external organizational prestige

  2019cited by this paper
• Antecedents of protean and boundaryless career orientations: The role of core self-evaluations, perceived employability and social capital

  2019cited by this paper
• Quality of working life of academics and researchers in the UK: the roles of contract type, tenure and university ranking

  2018cited by this paper
• Navigating Ambivalence: Perceived Organizational Prestige–Support Discrepancy and Its Relation to Employee Cynicism and Silence

  2018influential reference
• The Role of Social Capital for Organizational Identification: Implications for Strategic Communication

  2018cited by this paper
• The different impact of personal social capital and intra-organizational SC: The Enron case study

  2018cited by this paper
• The association between team-level social capital and individual-level work engagement: Differences between subtypes of social capital and the impact of intra-team agreement.

  2018cited by this paper
• Three levels of organizational social capital and their connection to performance

  2017cited by this paper
• Street-level bureaucrats’ turnover intention: does public service motivation matter?

  2017cited by this paper
• The Multiple Pathways through which Internal and External Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Organizational Identification and Multifoci Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Cultural and Social Orientations

  2017cited by this paper
• Social capital among healthcare professionals: A prospective study of its importance for job satisfaction, work engagement and engagement in clinical improvements.

  2016cited by this paper
• Social Identity Theory

  2016cited by this paper
• Development of a new scale to measure subjective career success: A mixed-methods study

  2016cited by this paper
• A systematic review of current understandings of employability

  2016cited by this paper
• Retaining talent by enhancing organizational prestige : An HRM strategy for employees working in the retail sector

  2015cited by this paper
• Employment and the changing labour market

  2015cited by this paper
• Accumulation of Social Capital as a Competitive Advantage of Companies which are Loyal to the Principles of Corporate Citizenship

  2015cited by this paper
• Career Compromise, Career Distress, and Perceptions of Employability

  2015cited by this paper
• High performance work systems and organizational effectiveness: The mediating role of social capital ☆

  2015cited by this paper
• UNDERSTANDING HYBRIDITY IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

  2015cited by this paper
• Relationship between protean career orientation and work–life balance: A resource perspective

  2015cited by this paper
• Subjective career success: A meta-analytic review

  2014cited by this paper
• Contract type, perceived mobility and optimism as antecedents of perceived employability

  2014cited by this paper
• The role of dispositional employability in determining individual differences in career success

  2014cited by this paper
• Healthcare performance turned into decision support.

  2013cited by this paper
• Employee alienation: relationships with careerism and career satisfaction

  2013cited by this paper
• Perceived External Prestige and Employee Outcomes: Mediation Effect of Organizational Identification

  2013cited by this paper
• Social capital, human capital, and career success in public relations in Taiwan

  2011cited by this paper
• The Value of Intra-organizational Social Capital: How it Fosters Knowledge Transfer, Innovation Performance, and Growth

  2011cited by this paper
• Organizational identification: Extending our understanding of social identities through social networks†

  2011cited by this paper
• Competency development and career success: The mediating role of employability

  2011cited by this paper
• A longitudinal study of determinants of perceived employability.

  2010cited by this paper
• Organizational social capital, structure and performance

  2010cited by this paper
• Formal and Informal Network Coupling and its Relationship to Workplace Attachment

  2009cited by this paper
• Targeted employee retention: Performance-based and job-related differences in reported reasons for staying

  2009cited by this paper
• Advances in Career Theory and Research: A Critical Review and Agenda for Future Exploration

  2009cited by this paper
• Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis

  2008cited by this paper
• Protean Attitude and Career Success: The Mediating Role of Self-Management.

  2008cited by this paper
• Self perceived employability: construction and initial validation of a scale for university students

  2008cited by this paper
• Self-perceived employability: development and validation of a scale

  2007influential reference
• Multiple organizational identification levels and the impact of perceived external prestige and communication climate

  2007cited by this paper
• The Role of Perceived Organizational Performance in Organizational Identification, Adjustment and Job Performance

  2007cited by this paper
• Perceived external prestige and internal respect: New insights into the organizational identification process

  2006cited by this paper
• Social Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Urban Public Schools

  2006cited by this paper
• Social Identity and Social Capital: The Collective Self at Work

  2006influential reference
• Predicting Perceived Employability: Human Capital or Labour Market Opportunities?

  2006influential reference
• PREDICTORS OF OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE CAREER SUCCESS: A META‐ANALYSIS

  2005cited by this paper
• Career success in a boundaryless career world.

  2005cited by this paper
• Perceived External Prestige, Affective Commitment, and Citizenship Behaviors

  2005cited by this paper
• KEEPING AN EYE ON THE MIRROR : IMAGE AND IDENTITY IN ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION

  2005cited by this paper
• Exploring the role of perceived external prestige in managers' turnover intentions

  2004influential reference
• SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models

  2004cited by this paper
• The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior.

  2004cited by this paper
• Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications

  2004cited by this paper
• The Group Engagement Model: Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Cooperative Behavior

  2003influential reference
• Common method biases in behavioral research: a critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

  2003cited by this paper
• Predictors of success in the era of the boundaryless career

  2003cited by this paper
• Predictive validity of a multidisciplinary model of reemployment success.

  2002cited by this paper
• Prerequisites to guarantee life-long employability

  2002cited by this paper
• A Social Capital Theory of Career Success

  2001cited by this paper
• Psychology in organizations: The social identity approach

  2001cited by this paper
• THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION AND PERCEIVED EXTERNAL PRESTIGE ON ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

  2000cited by this paper
• Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices

  1999cited by this paper
• Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage

  1998cited by this paper
• To be or not to be: Central questions in organizational identification.

  1998cited by this paper
• Employability : [your way to career success]

  1995cited by this paper
• Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification

  1992cited by this paper
• Social identity theory and the organization

  1989influential reference
• Organizational Prestige: Some Functions and Dysfunctions

  1961cited by this paper

• Relationship of social capital, community identity, and perceived safety resilience during public emergencies in Shanghai

  2025cites this paper
• An international comparison of graduate outcome survey instruments: a critical reflection

  2025cites this paper
• Investigating the interplay of organizational social capital, university image and perceived employability on career satisfaction of information technology professionals

  2024cites this paper
• Student Career Management and Built Employability Capacity: Student Career Management and Built Employability Capacity: Exploring the Role of Student Relationship Management Exploring the Role of Student Relationship Management

  year unknowncites this paper