The effects of job characteristics on perceived organizational identification and job satisfaction of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games employees

ABSTRACT

This research examined how job characteristics affect employee satisfaction through the perceived organizational identification (OID) of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) employees. By conducting structural equation modeling and bootstrapping, the proposed model was tested with a sample of 280 full-time employees from the 2018 PyeongChang OCOG. The results confirmed that task significance (SIG; β = .52, p < .001) and feedback (FB; β = .19, p < .05) were significant antecedents affecting employee OID and that OID (β = .55, p < .001) explained 29.8% of the variance in job satisfaction (JSAT). The bootstrapping results indicated a significant indirect effect of SIG on JSAT, mediated by OID (β = .28, p < .001), confirming the importance of OID in JSAT. The findings revealed the importance of highlighting the values of the Olympic Movement as a human resources management strategy in the OCOG context.

KEYWORDS:

• job characteristics
• organizational identification
• job satisfaction
• Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
• Olympic legacy

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

ORCID

Jaeyeon Hwang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2936-3414

Wonyong Jang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8520-2634