Understanding Identity and Organizations

by Kate Kenny

• ISBN13: 9781848606791
• ISBN10: 1848606796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. While conventional management textbooks nod to in-groups, cohesion and discrimination, this text offers instead a deeper, more nuanced understanding of why people, groups and organizations behave the way they do.With conceptions of identity perhaps less stable than they have ever been, the authors make complex theoretical issues accessible to the reader through the use of lively examples from popular culture. The authors present an overview of the key issues, as well as an examination of cutting-edge research and topical forces currently redefining identity, such as globalisation, the fair trade movement and online identities.This text is a succinct, relevant and exciting overview of the field of identity studies as it relates to business and management and applied social sciences, an is an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of management on any course that has an identity component.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Understanding Identity

Introduction

Identity vs Personality

Identity on the Management Agenda: a Brief History

How Do Individual and Organizational Identities Interact?

Introducing the Book

Suggested Reading

Theoretical Perspectives on Identity

Introduction

Social Identity Theory (SIt)

Psychoanalysis

Foucauldian Perspective

Symbolic Interactionism

Narrative Approaches

Micro-interactional Approaches

Application Exercise - The Case of Frances

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

Diversity and Identity

Introduction

Identity as a Social Category

Identity as a Process of Social Construction

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

Occupational Identities

Introduction

The Meaning of Work

Occupational Cultures and Boundaries

Managerial Identities

Professional Identities

The Dirty, the Deviant and the Degrading

Unpaid Work and Unemployment

When I Grow Up I Want To Be âÇ 

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

Identity and Organizational Control

Overview and Introduction

Bringing Identity to Work

Managing Culture

Managing Identities

Identification and Dis-identification

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

Organizational Identity

Introduction

Organizational Identity: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Organizational Identity - Properties or Beliefs?

Types of Organizational Identity

Power in (and of) Organizational Identity

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

Virtual Identity

Overview and Introduction

Competing Perspectives: Technological Determinism and Social Constructionism

New Connections and Identity: Online Communities

Virtual Identity, Power and Control

Teleworking and Identity

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Sample Exam/Assignment Questions

The Future of Identity

Introduction

Strong Attachments and Totalizing Workplaces?

Weak Attachments and the 'Flexible' Firm

New Public Management

Identity and the Global, Virtual Firm

The Future of Diversity

Conclusion

Suggested Reading

Glossary of Terms

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