Identity Work: Processes and Dynamics of Identity Formations

Beech, Nic; MacIntosh, Robert; McInnes, Peter

doi:10.1080/01900690801920411

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“…Scholars use various terms, such as ‘self‐doubt’ (Alvesson and Willmott ; Beech et al . ), ‘insecurity’ (LaPointe ), ‘fear and confusion’ (Down and Reveley ) as well as ‘excitement’ and ‘enjoyment’ (Empson ), to specify the emotions involved in the experience of identity‐threatening situations, such as of role change, contrasting role expectations, career change and bullying (Alvesson and Robertson ; Beech ; Empson ; Ibarra and Petriglieri ; Lutgen‐Sandvik ; Sveningsson and Alvesson ; Storey et al . ; Thomas and Linstead ; Watson ).…”

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Identity Work and Emotions: A Review

Winkler

2016

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper reviews the empirical literature on identity work and identifies two distinct approaches to incorporating emotion. The majority of empirical studies use emotion to describe the experiences of identity work. In doing so, the authors (a) mention the emotions that people feel in situations that trigger identity work, (b) illustrate identity work as an emotional endeavour, and (c) describe the emotional impact of successful and unsuccessful identity work. There is also an emerging literature that examines the mutual constitution of emotions and identity work. These authors address emotional labour, affective social identification, emotional attachment and detachment, and humour when studying identity work. This paper suggests that, to understand better the relation between emotions and identity work, future research should examine the role of emotions in problematizing identity, the emotional constitution of the identity work experience, the intersection of emotions and other ways of knowing the self, and the links between emotions and power in identity work.

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Identity Work and Emotions: A Review

Winkler

2016

Int J Management Reviews

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“…This shift of role may eventually trigger a changed work identity. However, this transition may not be easy: work on organizational identity has focused on tensions and dilemmas in constructing and conciliating multiple identities (Iedema et al ; Sveningsson and Alvesson ; Hallier and Forbes ; Beech et al ).…”

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Understanding Hybridity in Public Organizations

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Ferlie

Gestel

2015

Public Administration

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This article explores and extends the concept of hybridity to understand current changes in public services organizations, notably as seen from an organizational studies perspective. The notion of hybridity has become more important, given that the public sector increasingly blurs with other sectors and more social actors. Previous reliance on the use of ideal‐types in characterizing public services reforms has masked expanding heterogeneity. We here move beyond the (i) conventional focus on structural hybridity to consider (ii) institutional dynamics, (iii) social interactions, and (iv) new identities and roles in public services. Based on these four dimensions of hybridity, we review alternative theoretical frameworks. We suggest that bringing together work from the neighbouring disciplines of public administration and organization studies may improve our understanding of public services hybridity and outline a future research agenda.

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“…The role of the individual in discursive identity construction is theorized through the concept of identity work (Alvesson and Willmott, 2002; Beech et al ., 2008; Snow and Anderson, 1987; Sveningsson and Alvesson, 2003; Watson, 2008). Identity work refers to the activities individuals engage with in order to create, present or sustain identities (Snow and Anderson, 1987).…”

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Heroic Career Changers? Gendered Identity Work in Career Transitions

LaPointe

2012

Gender Work & Organization

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This article contributes to the literature on agency and its constraints in new careers by focusing on the role of gender in identity work. Drawing on the concept of positioning, this article offers a longitudinal and contextualized analysis of identity work among Finnish female business graduates considering career change. The study shows how identity work is gendered in three respects: via the masculine position of a career changer in master narratives of career change, the positions used to account for the need to change careers and the positions at the heart of identity struggles. This article problematizes individualistic new career discourses by showing how gender, intersecting with age, constrains identity work in career change. However, it also brings to light possibilities for agency via alternative resources of identity.

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Identity Work: Processes and Dynamics of Identity Formations

Cited by 39 publications

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Identity Work and Emotions: A Review

Identity Work and Emotions: A Review

Understanding Hybridity in Public Organizations

Heroic Career Changers? Gendered Identity Work in Career Transitions

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