Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward
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DOI: 10.1002/job.2318
Abstract: Understanding how, why, and when individuals create particular self-meanings has preoccupied scholars for decades, leading to an explosion of research on identity work. We conducted a wideranging review of this literature with the aim of… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; work organizations; occupations definitions; identity ... See more keywords
Helpers “Here on the Front Lines”: Welfare‐to‐Work Managers' Moral Identity Work
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DOI: 10.1002/symb.315
Abstract: Using data drawn from telephone interviews with Ohio Works First program managers (N = 69), we examine managers' moral identity work. This work included using militarized rhetoric to evoke moral identities as honorable workers. It also involved… read more here.
Keywords: work; moral identity; identity work; welfare work ... See more keywords
Supporting intentional reflection through collage to explore self-care in identity work during initial teacher education
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2019.102920
Abstract: Abstract Given the complexity of teaching in the current educational climate, figuring out what it means to be a teacher needs to include conversations around how self-care fits within one's professional identity. Therefore, understanding the… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; initial teacher; teacher education; identity ... See more keywords
Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047404518001379
Abstract: Abstract This article examines how people complain about technology. Using discourse analysis, we inspect sixteen hours of video-recorded focus-group interviews and focused one-on-one discussions where technology was topicalized. We investigate these conversations paying attention to… read more here.
Keywords: technology resource; identity work; resource identity; complaints technology ... See more keywords
Chronotopes and timespace contexts: academic identity work revealed in narrative fiction
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DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1085008
Abstract: In this paper, academic identity work is explored through an examination of its portrayal in a work of narrative fiction using a conceptual tool from literary studies. It is found that such an approach provides… read more here.
Keywords: timespace contexts; identity work; academic identity; narrative fiction ... See more keywords
Identity Work and Tensions in Organizational Internships: A Comparative Analysis
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DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2017.1312510
Abstract: This paper examines an increasingly popular yet underexplored form of organizational employment: internships. Drawing on interviews with 40 interns, this study explores the communicative tensions they faced and how two different groups of interns, satisfied… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; identity; versus; work tensions ... See more keywords
The other Chinese: identity work and self-orientalization of Chinese host country nationals in multinational corporations
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DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2017.1386355
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper draws on an in-depth case study of narrative identity work to explore heuristically the role of host country nationals in the reproduction of orientalist discourses in multinational corporations (MNCs). Based on this… read more here.
Keywords: host country; identity work; country nationals; multinational corporations ... See more keywords
Interactive identity work of professionals in management: a hospital case study
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2018.1549269
Abstract: ABSTRACT Hybrid professional managers appear less effective in introducing management into public professional settings than policymakers hope. To date, research has offered little understanding of professionals’ identity transition challenge and the role of social interactions… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; work professionals; management; identity ... See more keywords
Mobility, exile, and native identity in the work of Edith Wharton
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331003
Abstract: Abstract Conditions of knowledge production in the academy are increasingly disrupted as universities adopt neoliberal economic priorities, and as a result, studies of mobility take place in circumstances that are themselves highly mobilized and precaritized.… read more here.
Keywords: mobility exile; identity work; mobility; exile native ... See more keywords
Refugees’ narratives of career barriers and professional identity
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DOI: 10.1108/cdi-12-2018-0315
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how refugees from a professional career domain restore a coherent narrative when confronting barriers to recognition of their former career status. It focuses in particular on… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; identity; professional identity; career barriers ... See more keywords
Identity Work, Humour and Disciplinary Power
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DOI: 10.1177/0170840616677632
Abstract: How are people’s identities disciplined by their talk about humour? Based on an ethnographic study of a New York food co-operative, we show how members’ talk about appropriate and inappropriate uses of humour disciplined their… read more here.
Keywords: identity work; work humour; disciplinary power; humour disciplinary ... See more keywords