Building employee commitment through internal branding - a meta-analytic study
Building employee commitment through internal branding - a meta-analytic study
Purpose: This study aims to quantitatively consolidate the research conducted over the past four decades on how internal branding activities drive employee commitment. It summarizes several operationalizations of internal branding and tests the moderating effect of employee’s personal characteristics and job characteristics on the relationship between internal branding and employee commitment. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses meta-analysis as the research methodology. The analysis includes a sample of 65 studies (from 62 published works), yielding 226 effect sizes (coded into 82 composite effect sizes) over an aggregated sample of 21,706 respondents. Findings: This study finds that brand communication, brand-centered human resource management (HRM), training and development, organizational support and culture, brand-centered leadership and an excellent reward system are the key operationalizations of internal branding. Furthermore, employee’s personal (education, age and gender) and job (tenure, work status and level of customer orientation) characteristics significantly moderate the internal branding–employee commitment relationship. Research limitations/implications: Limited empirical literature on some of the internal branding operationalizations such as brand-centered HRM and rewards has curbed the scope of moderator analysis. Practical implications: This paper proposes some effective ways of implementing internal branding strategies and provides support for boundary conditions that brand managers should consider to strengthen the impact of internal branding activities on employee commitment. Originality/value: As per the authors’ knowledge, this paper is among the few quantitative consolidations of four decades of research on the internal branding–employee commitment relationship.
Brand communications, Brand leadership, Brand-centered HRM, Culture, Employee commitment, Internal branding, Organizational structure, Rewards, Training
Prashar, Atul
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Maity, Moutusy
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Prashar, Atul
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Maity, Moutusy
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Prashar, Atul and Maity, Moutusy
(2024)
Building employee commitment through internal branding - a meta-analytic study.
European Journal of Marketing.
(doi:10.1108/EJM-12-2021-0983).
Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to quantitatively consolidate the research conducted over the past four decades on how internal branding activities drive employee commitment. It summarizes several operationalizations of internal branding and tests the moderating effect of employee’s personal characteristics and job characteristics on the relationship between internal branding and employee commitment. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses meta-analysis as the research methodology. The analysis includes a sample of 65 studies (from 62 published works), yielding 226 effect sizes (coded into 82 composite effect sizes) over an aggregated sample of 21,706 respondents. Findings: This study finds that brand communication, brand-centered human resource management (HRM), training and development, organizational support and culture, brand-centered leadership and an excellent reward system are the key operationalizations of internal branding. Furthermore, employee’s personal (education, age and gender) and job (tenure, work status and level of customer orientation) characteristics significantly moderate the internal branding–employee commitment relationship. Research limitations/implications: Limited empirical literature on some of the internal branding operationalizations such as brand-centered HRM and rewards has curbed the scope of moderator analysis. Practical implications: This paper proposes some effective ways of implementing internal branding strategies and provides support for boundary conditions that brand managers should consider to strengthen the impact of internal branding activities on employee commitment. Originality/value: As per the authors’ knowledge, this paper is among the few quantitative consolidations of four decades of research on the internal branding–employee commitment relationship.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 February 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 April 2024
Keywords:
Brand communications, Brand leadership, Brand-centered HRM, Culture, Employee commitment, Internal branding, Organizational structure, Rewards, Training
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Local EPrints ID: 489418
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/489418
ISSN: 0309-0566
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Atul Prashar
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Moutusy Maity
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