Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

by Roberts; Laura Morgan

• ISBN13: 9781841697642
• ISBN10: 1841697648
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-05-28
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics and new theoretical approaches to identity through the specific focus on positive identities of individuals, groups, organizations and communities.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Editors and Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction
Positive Identities and Organizations: An Introduction and Invitation	p. 3
Identities and Individuals in Organizations
Growing Pains and Gains: Framing Identity Dynamics as Opportunities for Identity Growth	p. 23
Who Am I Now? Sensemaking and Identity in Posttraumatic Growth	p. 47
Experiencing Hope in Organizational Lives	p. 77
Me, Myself, and I: The Benefits of Work-Identity Complexity	p. 99
Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between Nonwork and Work Identities	p. 125
Bringing the Inside Out: Enhancing Authenticity and Positive Identity in Organizations	p. 149
Commentary: Positive Identities and the Individual	p. 171
Positive Identities and Relationships in Groups and Organizations
Identity Work During Boundary Moments: Managing Positive Identities Through Talk and Embodied Interaction	p. 191
Assuming the Mantle: Unpacking the Process by Which Individuals Internalize a Leader Identity	p. 217
Positive Identities in Action: A Model of Mentoring Self-Structures and the Motivation to Mentor	p. 237
Renarrating Positive Relational Identities in Organizations: Self-Narration as a Mechanism for Strategic Emotion Management in Interpersonal Interactions	p. 265
Creating and Sustaining Cooperation in Interdependent Groups: Positive Relational Identities, Identity Confirmation, and Cooperative Capacity	p. 289
Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries Within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition	p. 319
Commentary: The Elusive Search for a Positive Relational Identity-Grappling With Multiplicity and Conflict	p. 341
Positive Identities and Organizations and Communities
Generative Organizational Identity Change: Approaching Organizational Authenticity as a Process	p. 361
E Pluribus Unum: Multiple Identities and the Organizational Self	p. 385
Organizational Identity as a Stakeholder Resource	p. 411
Fostering Sustainability-Focused Organizational Identities	p. 435
Organizational Mechanisms Underlying Positive Community Identity and Reputation	p. 461
Commentary: Finding the Positive in Positive Organizational Identities	p. 479
Conclusion
Forging Ahead: Positive Identities and Organizations as a Research Frontier	p. 497
Author Index	p. 517
Subject Index	p. 533
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