Abstract Employee’s behaviors are contingent upon the perception of their belongingness to an organization where individuals define themselves in the organization in which they are members. In China, temporary agency workers with triangular employment relationships are different from the western countries to form their identifications to the employing company. This paper analyzes how Mianzi and social status impact on the formation of agency worker’s identifications, builds a dynamic development model of agency workers’ identifications, and proposes three propositions for future empirical studies. The paper reaches a conclusion that the employeremployee relationship conflict in organizations tends to arise while those organizations have a different investment in employees based on their employment status, although labor cost is saved.
2014, Vol. 11 
