The importance of being `Indian': Identity centrality and work outcomes in an off-shored call center in India
研究印度呼叫中心员工的国家身份中心性如何影响工作绩效和离职意愿，并发现国家身份中心性会削弱组织认同对绩效的正面作用、加剧职业倦怠。
Existing studies of identity dynamics have shown that employees embody multiple social identities, and have multiple foci of identifications at work that shape their attitudes and behaviors. However, limited research has examined these frameworks in the new, emerging contexts of global workplaces. In this article, we focus on one such significant example of contemporary globalization: transnational service work in the international call center industry in India. Our findings indicate that national identity centrality is indeed negatively associated with employee performance and positively associated with intention to leave. Furthermore, national identity centrality also moderates the relationship of organizational identification with performance and burnout. While we reinforce the importance of organizational identity and occupational identity centrality, we highlight the hitherto ignored consequences of national identity centrality in our study context.