The expansion, modification and empirical testing of a psychological ownership structural model

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2020-12
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT : No amount of financial resources, technological ingenuity or innovation will ensure the profitability of an organisation if they don’t have the necessary human resources who are both able and willing to rise to the occasion. Labour represents the element that determines the efficiency with which the other factors of production are utilised and therefore ultimately determines organisational performance. Therefore, it is important for an organisation to monitor and improve its employees’ performance and well-being to maintain or raise profitability. This study attempted to shed some light on the importance of extra role behaviour (non-task performance) which contributes toward the overall performance of an organisation. Subsequently, an argument was presented that introduces and supported psychological ownership as an important component that influences these extra role behaviours (such as organisational citizenship behaviour). The importance of psychological ownership was also linked to certain crucial work attitudes such as job satisfaction, and job engagement. This line of reasoning more specifically, in conjunction with the preceding discussion, warrants directing the inquiry into additional antecedents to those already identified by Lee (2017) to psychological ownership , towards the manner in which specific latent variables moderate and mediate the effect of psychological ownership on the consequences of psychological ownership and how these consequences directly and/or indirectly feedback on to psychological ownership. This study proposed a comprehensive Psychological Ownership structural model. An ex post facto correlation design with structural equation modelling (SEM) was used as the statistical analysis technique to test the substantive research hypotheses represented by the psychological ownership structural model. In addition, the study tested two additional narrow-focused structural models describing the impact of congruence between the salience of the self-efficacy and self-identity needs and the perceived ability of the job to satisfy these needs on the motivation the pursue the routes to psychological ownership by using an ex post facto correlation design with polynomial regression as the statistical analysis technique. A convenience sample of 399 employees working in both the private and public sector participated in the study. The Klopper-Lee Psychological Ownership structural model achieved reasonable fit. The beta matrix revealed that all, but one, path estimate between the endogenous latent variables were statistically significant This implies that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that a definite causal relationship exists between the intimate knowledge that one gains in a job and the extent to which that job is integrated into the self-identity. Furthermore, support was not found for the hypothesis that task identity has a positive influence on the motivation to pursue routes to psychological ownership, that task significance has a positive influence on the motivation to pursue routes to psychological ownership, that task variety has a positive influence on the motivation to pursue routes to psychological ownership, and that autonomy has a positive influence on gaining intimate knowledge. Finally, the relationships between perceived ability*self-investment and integration into the self, and between perceived ability of job to satisfy self-efficacy need and motivation to engage in self investment had inconsistent signs compared to the direction of the hypothesised causal relationship. The squared multiple correlations (R2) indicated that the psychological ownership structural model was able to explain 45% of variance in psychological ownership.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Geen hoeveelheid finansiële hulpbronne, tegnologiese vindingrykheid of innovasie sal die winsgewendheid van 'n organisasie verseker as hulle nie oor die nodige menslikehulpbronne beskik wat beide in staat is en bereid is om tot die geleentheid toe te tree nie. Arbeid verteenwoordig die element wat die doeltreffendheid waarmee die ander produksiefaktore benut word bepaal en dit bepaal uiteindelik die organisasie se prestasie. Daarom is dit belangrik vir 'n organisasie om sy werknemers se prestasie en welstand te monitor en te verbeter om winsgewendheid te handhaaf of te verhoog. Hierdie studie het probeer om lig te werp op die belangrikheid van ekstra rolgedrag wat bydra tot die algehele prestasie van 'n organisasie. Daarna is 'n argument aangebied wat sielkundige eienaarskap bekendstel en ondersteun as 'n belangrike komponent wat hierdie ekstra rolgedrag (soos organisatoriese burgerskapsgedrag) beïnvloed. Die belangrikheid van sielkundige eienaarskap was ook gekoppel aan sekere deurslaggewende werkshoudinge soos werkstevredenheid en werksbetrokkenheid. Hierdie gedagtegang, meer spesifiek, in samehang met die voorafgaande bespreking, waarborg dat die ondersoek na bykomende antesedente op diegene wat reeds deur Lee (2017) geïdentifiseer is, op sielkundige eienaarskap gerig is, op die manier waarop spesifieke latente veranderlikes die effek van sielkundige eienaarskap modereer en bemiddel. oor die gevolge van sielkundige eienaarskap en hoe hierdie gevolge direk en/of indirek terugvoer gee aan sielkundige eienaarskap. Hierdie studie het 'n omvattende strukturele model van sielkundige eienaarskap voorgestel. 'n Ex post facto korrelatiewe-ontwerp met strukturele vergelyking-modellering (SEM) is gebruik as die statistiese ontledingstegniek om die substantiewe navorsingshipoteses wat deur die sielkundige eienaarskap-strukturele model voorgestel word, te toets. Daarbenewens het die studie twee addisionele gefokusde strukturele modelle getoets wat die impak van die kongruensie tussen die selfkragdadigheids- en self-identiteitbehoefte en die waargenome vermoë van die pos om hierdie behoeftes te bevredig op die motivering om die roetes na sielkundige eienaarskap volg deur 'n ex post facto korrelasie-ontwerp met polinomiese regressie te gebruik as die statistiese ontledingstegniek. 'n Geriefssteekproef van 399 werknemers wat in die private en openbare sektor werk, het aan die studie deelgeneem. Die Klopper-Lee sielkundige eienaarskap strukturele model vhet redelike pasgehalte behaal. Die beta-matriks het aan die lig gebring dat alle, behalwe een, skatting tussen die endogene latente veranderlikes statisties beduidend was. Dit impliseer dat daar onvoldoende bewyse was om tot die gevolgtrekking te kom dat daar 'n definitiewe oorsaaklike verband bestaan tussen die intieme kennis wat 'n mens in 'n pos verkry en die mate waarin daardie werk geïntegreer word in die self-identiteit. Verder is daar nie ondersteuning gevind vir die hipotese dat taakidentiteit 'n positiewe invloed het op die motivering om roetes na sielkundige eienaarskap te volg nie, dat taakbelang 'n positiewe invloed het op die motivering om roetes na sielkundige eienaarskap na te streef, dat taakvariëteit 'n positiewe invloed het op die motivering om roetes na sielkundige eienaarskap te volg, en dat outonomie 'n positiewe invloed het op die verwerwing van intieme kennis. Laastens het die verwantskappe tussen waargenome vermoë*selfbelegging en integrasie in die self, en tussen waargenome vermoë van werk om selfdoeltreffendheidsbehoeftes te bevredig en motivering om die self te investeer, teenstrydige tekens gehad in vergelyking met die aard van die oorsaaklike verwantskap wat aanvanklik gepostuleer is. Die gekwadreerde meervoudige korrelasies (R2) het aangedui dat die strukturele model 45% van die variansie in sielkundige eienaarskap kon verklaar.
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Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2020.
Keywords
Structural equation modeling -- Testing, Employee loyalty, Work environment -- Psychological aspects, Employee motivation, Organizational behavior, Organizational commitment, UCTD
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