Effects of Job Characteristics on Organizational Identity in Higher Education Sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain

This research examines the factors affecting organizational identity (OI) in higher education sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. More specifically, it tries to explore the influence of Job Characteristics (JC) on Organizational Identity (OI). a self-administered questionnaire was directed to academic and admin staff in the higher education sector in the kingdom of Bahrain. (118) academic and admin staff at higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Bahrain were surveyed through a simple random sampling method. The researchers hypothesized that there are significant impacts for Job Characteristics (Skill Variety, Task Identity, Task Significance, Autonomy, Feedback) on Organizational Identity for the employees in higher education. The findings revealed that this hypothesis was accepted for the effect of (JC) as a whole on (OI). According to the five dimensions of (JC), the results revealed that both of task significance and feedback are the only two dimensions that affect the organizational identity of workers in the sector in question. These results are discussed and several conclusions and implications were drawn, as well as more recommendations and future researches were suggested.