Psychological Ownership: Incremental Validity in Predicting Academics’ Creativity-Generating Teaching Styles Beyond Organizational Commitment (Poster 29)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 10:50 am
  In Poster Session: Faculty Topical Posters

Abstract

Employees’ psychological ownership, like organizational commitment, is critical to both individual development and organizational effectiveness. This study pioneered the investigation of the unique contribution of academics’ psychological ownership for universities to their teaching styles – beyond organizational commitment. Three hundred and thirty-two academics from nine research-oriented universities in mainland China responded to three self-report inventories. Apart from having validated the Chinese version of the Psychological Ownership Questionnaire, the study revealed that psychological ownership significantly overlapped with organizational commitment. Most importantly, the findings suggest that psychological ownership has incremental value in predicting teaching styles, especially creativity-generating styles, beyond that explained by organizational commitment. The present findings possess scientific and practical values

Authors

• Li-Fang Zhang, University of Hong Kong

• Mengting LI, Nanjing Normal University

• Zhengli Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Fei Cao, Nanjing Normal University