An Analysis On Relationship Between Organizational Conflict And Organizational Identity Of Employees

Since the beginning of organizational identity research in 80's in 21th century, after two decades development, organizational identity research shows a strong theoretical integrated characteristic. However, those organizational identity theories did not include the social conflict theory. Although a few scholars have pointed out that the organizational identity crisis will generated organizational conflict, but they did not indicate whether the conflict will affect the organizational identity. Therefore, this thesis will discuss the relationship between organizational conflict and organizational identity with social conflict theory. The purpose of this thesis is introduces social conflict theory study into organizational identity research in order to compensate for the deficiencies of current research. This thesis consider that the organizational identity can be divided into two dimension psychological identity and behavior identity, organizational conflict have very close link with psychological identity, which together affect the behavior identity. To prove this point, this paper use secondary analysis research the relationship between organizational conflict and organizational identity. After selected database, this thesis set organizational conflict and psychological identity as independent variables and behavior identity as dependent, through general linear regression model to discuss the relationship between organizational identity and organizational conflict. Research found that organizational conflict has a strong negative correlation with organizational identity. Generally, psychological identity increases every by 1 unit, behavior identity would increases by 0.46units, organizational conflict increases by 1 unit, psychological identity would decrease by 0.7 units, behavior recognition would decrease by 0.16units. Finally, this thesis indicates how to change organizational conflict into organizational identity to increase organizational performance.