Loneliness in Workplace: The Dilemma of Identification with the Organization

Abstract

The goals of this study are to examine employees' perceived levels of organizational identification (OI) in terms of their sense of workplace loneliness (WL), to determine whether there is a significant relationship between these concepts and, if any WL exists for an employee, to reveal its role in a workplace on the employees' OI. A significant and negative relationship was found between WL and OI; a significant and negative relationship was found between the independent sub-variable, emotional deprivation, and OI. Also, a significant and positive relationship was found between social friendships and OI. It was found that a 1 unit increase in the emotional deprivation sub-dimension caused an increase of 0.111 units on OI, and a 1 unit increase in the social friendship sub-dimension caused an increase of 0.836 units on one's OI.