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| A Family-Like Exchange Perspective of Employee-Organization Relationships and Affective Commitment |
| WANG Taolin，LONG Lirong，ZHANG Yong，ZHOU Hao，ZHANG Junwei |
| 1. Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; 2. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; 3. Chongqing University, Chongqing, China; 4. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China |
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Abstract This study explores the effects of employee-organization relationships on affective commitment by identifying the family-like exchange as a specific cultural mechanism. The final data included 73 middle-level managers and 256 employees from 26 organizations. The research model and hypotheses were tested using SPSS 17.0, AMOS 17.0 and HLM 6.02. The empirical results supported our prediction that over-investment employee-organization relationship is a significant driver of family-like exchange. Moreover, through the mediating role of family-like exchange, over-investment employee-organization relationship has an indirect, positive relationship on affective commitment. Our findings contribute to the research of employee-organization relationships by providing direct empirical evidence for the role of family-like exchange in explaining, at least in part, the determining process of employee-organization relationships. Our research also contributes to the family-like exchange research by demonstrating over-investment employee-organization relationship as an organizational-level antecedent of family-like exchange.
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Received: 28 September 2018
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