Companies often discuss the importance of organizational pride and what they believe leads to it, yet research on this topic in the organizational sciences has not kept pace. Our paper narrows this research-practice gap by identifying important antecedents and consequences of organizational pride. To do so, we build theory on the nature of organizational pride as an important workplace attitude by explaining how it carries prescriptive implications in addition to evaluative properties, which provides new insights into how it operates. Empirically, we demonstrate in an experiment and a field study how employee perceptions of their organization’s virtuousness and competence affect their level of pride toward the organization, which subsequently impacts their task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors. We conclude with a discussion of the implications and future research avenues.

公司经常讨论组织自豪感的重要性以及他们认为导致这种自豪感的原因，但组织科学中对该主题的研究并没有跟上步伐。我们的论文通过确定组织自豪感的重要前因和后果来缩小这种研究与实践的差距。为此，我们通过解释组织自豪感的本质是一种重要的工作场所态度，建立了理论，解释了它如何具有除了评估属性之外的规定性含义，这为它的运作方式提供了新的见解。根据经验，我们在实验和实地研究中展示了员工对其组织美德和能力的看法如何影响他们对组织的自豪感，进而影响他们的任务绩效和组织公民行为。