TY  - JOUR
A1  - Olckers, Chantal
A1  - Zyl, Llewellyn Ellardus van
T1  - The relationship between employment equity perceptions and psychological ownership in a South African mining house: the role of ethnicity
T2  - Social indicators research
N2  - Psychological ownership is a cognitive–affective construct based on individuals’ feelings of possessiveness towards and of being psychologically tied/attached to objects that are material (e.g. tools or work) and immaterial (e.g. ideas or workspace) in nature. Research suggests that psychological ownership could be influenced by various individual, organisational and contextual factors. The South African Employment Equity Act, which was implemented to grant equitable opportunities to previously disadvantaged employees, could be a significant contextual factor affecting psychological ownership, due to perceptions associated with inequality. Ethnicity may also act as a moderator for the relationship between perceptions of employment equity and psychological ownership. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between employment equity perceptions and psychological ownership and to explore whether ethnicity plays a moderating role in the relationship. A cross-sectional survey design was employed with a purposeful sample of 202 respondents employed in a large South African mining house. Pearson product–moment correlations and structural equation modelling confirmed that employment equity perceptions could predict the five components of psychological ownership. However, the results revealed that ethnicity has no moderating effect on the relationship between perceptions of employment equity and the emergence of psychological ownership. By implication, organisations that seek to retain employees targeted through equity initiatives need to find ways to enhance and develop the psychological ownership of these employees. The research contributes new insights into and knowledge of how contextual factors could influence employees’ psychological ownership.
KW  - Employment equity
KW  - Psychological ownership
KW  - Structural equation modelling
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/57068
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-570682
SN  - 1573-0921
SN  - 0303-8300
VL  - 127.2016
SP  - 887
EP  - 890
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -