A theory is developed on the basis of need paradigm and psychological contract to explain why employees identify with their work organization. It suggests three motives of organizational identification: Transactional, relational and developmental. The model includes compensation loss, relationship conflict and promotability drop to represent each of the three motives of organizational identification, and it also links with procedural justice and gender as moderators. Contrary to the traditional view that organizational identification is solely varied with social factors, the survey data from a Chinese factory demonstrated that organizational identification was negatively related to compensation loss and promotability drop. A three-way interaction was also found significant gender difference in response to procedural justice under motives unfulfillment. Unlike Chinese men, Chinese women would retain their organizational identification under compensation loss as long as they perceived procedural justice. The present study also recorded that Chinese employees with higher organizational identification had better in-role performance but not extra-role performance, the finding of which was opposite to that of the past studies. Further, the data supported that organizational identification might play a central role in mediating the relationship between in-role performance and the interaction of procedural justice, gender, and compensation loss together with that of procedural justice, gender, and promotability drop. / Tso Sek Kwong. / "Aug 2005." / Adviser: Chun Hui. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0265. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-110). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

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