Team-member exchange and commitment to a matrix team

Data collected from members (N = 141) of 22 matrix teams in a public sector organization indicated that the perceived reciprocity of social exchange b etween the team members and the teams (exchange quality) related to express ions of team commitment. Consistent with social identity theory, team ident ification moderated the magnitude of this relationship. Specifically, team- member exchange quality was unrelated to commitment among members who prima rily identified with their team but was moderately related among members id entifying with other organizational constituencies.