Affective Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Non-family Employees: Investigating the Roles of Justice Perceptions and Psychological Ownership

Due to numerous characteristics often attributed to family firms, they constitute a unique context for non-family employees’ justice perceptions. These are linked to non-family employees’ pro-organizational attitudes and behaviors, which are essential for family firms’ success. Even though scholarly interest in non-family employees’ justice perceptions has increased, more research is still needed, also because the mechanism connecting justice perceptions and favorable outcomes is not fully understood yet. We address this gap by explicitly investigating non-family employees’ justice perceptions and by introducing psychological ownership as a mediator in the relationships between justice perceptions (distributive and procedural) and common work attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction). Our analysis of a sample of 310 non-family employees from Germany and German-speaking Switzerland reveals that psychological ownership mediates the relationships between distributive justice and affective commitment as well as job satisfaction. This represents valuable contributions to family business research, organizational justice and psychological ownership literature, and to practice.

Advances in Research on Semantic Roles

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems, and there is still no consensus on how the roles are best defined. In this volume, the notion will be discussed from novel perspectives with the aim of providing new insights into our understanding of semantic roles. Two of the papers deal with semantic role clusters, one with semantic roles in verbless constructions, one with diachrony of semantic roles and two with individual semantic roles that have not been studied in too much detail in previous studies. The book may not offer answers to all questions the readers may have, but at least it raises interesting further questions relevant to arriving at a better understanding of semantic roles.

Measuring up : questions and answers about state roles in educational accountability.

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A second census of Finnegans wake; an index of the characters and their roles. Rev. and expanded from the first Census.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bond financing and transportation infrastructure: exploring concepts and roles.

Mode of access: Internet.

Social security and the changing roles of men and women /

Summary (31 p.) inserted at end

Federal librarians in the 21st century : changing roles in the electronic age : summary report on conference proceedings : Wednesday, September 15, 1993, Mumford Room, James Madison Memorial Building, Library of Congress.

Shipping list no.: 94-0074-P.

Fatigue and stress and their roles in military operations, 24-26 January 1952 : ORO symposium.

"Project DOUGHBOY."

Section recommendations on retirement roles and activities; with related recommendations from other sections and special concerns sessions.

Cover title: Retirement roles and activities.

How women see their roles : a change in attitudes /

Mode of access: Internet.

A Directory of programs preparing registered nurses for expanded roles.

Vols. for issued as U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare. DHEW publication no. (HRA).

Enhancing quality and productivity in Illinois higher education : faculty roles and responsibilities /

Agenda item #5a from September 8, 1993, board meeting minutes.

Gifted program coordinator : roles and responsibilities.

Revised by Sandra Schmulbach and Sally Yahnke Walker with the help of the gifted education consultants from the Regioal Offices of Education and Intermediate Service Centers.