Team and Organizational Identification among Information Systems Personnel: An Exploratory Investigation of Post IT Outsourcing Personnel Impacts

This study examines the impact of social identification of IT employees in IT outsourcing firms. Specifically, we ask: What effect does social identification have on employee attitudes in the wake of major outsourcing initiatives? We examine social identification through the separate dimensions of team identification and organizational identification. The results suggest that when team identification and organizational identification are viewed as two distinct measures of social identity, the effect on the workplace attitudes of IT employees vary.