Psychological Ownership in the Organizational Environment

Abstract

The seminal research on psychological ownership conducted in the late 1980s/early 1990s formed the basis for many subsequent empirical studies, which included various contexts highlighted in the organizational environment, where their findings emphasized the crucial role of ownership as a decisive factor in the competitiveness of organizations and their performance. On this basis, this study constitutes a scientific entry into the topic in an organizational setting. We tried first to examine the conceptual construct of this feeling, focusing on clarifying its roots, how it comes into being, its dimensions, and its importance among employees, by examining the sources that motivate and reinforce it, and discussing scales that have been set up to measure it, with reference to the dark side of this feeling. We hope that this work will provide an underpinning for the development of domestic research on this topic. And we propose to examine mechanisms that enable those entrusted with different local organizations to create, enhance, and control this feeling among their affiliates, in a manner that sustains the achievement of individual and organizational goals, referring to a focus on exploring the possibility of developing a scale for it, that considers the psychological, social, and cultural specificity of the Algerian individual.