Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts

Hogg, Michael A.; Terry, Deborah I.

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“…Individuals derive part of their self-esteem through their identification with social groups (Luhtanen and Crocker 1992;Rubin and Hewstone 1998). Not only do individuals desire to see themselves as members of valued groups, they desire for others to view them as being a group member (Hogg and Terry 2000;Turner et al 1987). Thus, because of this need for belonging, it has been argued that individuals care more about an in-group member's evaluation as compared to an out-group member's evaluation (Turner et al 1987).…”

Section: The Relationship Between Social Category Diversity Relationmentioning

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Social Category Diversity Promotes Premeeting Elaboration: The Role of Relationship Focus

Loyd

Wang

Phillips

et al. 2013

Organization Science

128

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A purported downside of social category diversity is decreased relationship focus (i.e., one’s focus on establishing a positive social bond with a coworker). However, we argue that this lack of relationship focus serves as a central mechanism that improves information processing even prior to interaction and, ultimately, decision-making performance in diverse settings. We introduce the construct of premeeting elaboration (i.e., the extent to which individuals consider their own and others’ perspectives in the anticipation of an interaction) and explore its link with social category diversity and relationship focus. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate that when disagreement occurs, social category diversity increases premeeting elaboration, with relationship focus as a central causal mechanism. Experiment 3 shows that premeeting elaboration has important implications for performance: disagreeing dyads with social category diversity elaborate more prior to meeting and, as a result, perform better on a decision-making task than those with social category homogeneity. We discuss the value of studying early-stage interaction and propose a reconsideration of the “downside” of social category diversity.

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Section: The Relationship Between Social Category Diversity Relationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Category Diversity Promotes Premeeting Elaboration: The Role of Relationship Focus

Loyd

Wang

Phillips

et al. 2013

Organization Science

128

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“…While it is plausible that disidentification would lead to such extreme responses, the reactions tested go beyond the stated definition. Simply distancing oneself from a social group due to value incongruence would be sufficient to maintain a consistent series of cognitions (Hogg & Terry, 2000). The disidentification items used by Elsbach and Bhattacharya (2001) reversed the original Mael and Ashforth (1992) organisational identification measure.…”

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“…Third, existing marketing and policy literature focuses intently on the values and characteristics of organisations (Bhattacharya & Elsbach, 2002;Elsbach & Bhattacharya, 2001;Hogg & Terry, 2000) as antecedent to positive and negative responses. This narrow focus neglects the influence of other interactions, which potentially transmit organisational values in sport, such as trialling processes and interactions with staff (i.e., organisational practices).…”

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Thinking about the same things differently: Examining perceptions of a non-profit community sport organisation

Lock

Filo

Kunkel

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Sport Management Review

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“…Moreover, central questions to ask in exploring engineering identities are: who is an engineer, what does an engineer do, what does performing the role of an engineer entail, and what are the responsibilities of engineers? Drawing on Michael Hogg and Deborah Terry (2000), Kevin Anderson et al (2010) argue that engineering groups imagine archetypes that capture dependent features of group membership which are abstractions of group features: "These archetypes then show what the group values and serve to distinguish the ways of doing and thinking of one group from another" (p. 157).…”

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Designing the Identities of Engineers

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2015

Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

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Abstract:In 2007 Gary Downey, Juan Lucena and Carl Mitcham argued that a "key issue in ethics education for engineers concerns the relationship between the identity of the engineer and the responsibilities of engineering work". They suggested that "one methodological strategy for sorting out similarities and differences in engineers' identities is to ask the 'who' question. Who is an engineer? Or, what makes one an engineer?" (Downey, Lucena & Mitcham, 2007). This chapter explores these questions of who is an engineer and what makes one an engineer by examining how engineering and engineering technology students in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) describe and differentiate themselves. DIT offers both 4-year engineering degrees (that are equivalent to the educational standard required for professional status) and 3-year degrees in engineering technology. Annually DIT graduates the largest combined number of engineering and engineering technology majors in the country. We present results that show that there is no distinct sense of identity for a technologist. For faculty as well as engineering students and engineering technology students, design is perceived as a key differentiating activity that separates the engineer from the engineering technologist. Paradoxically, while all students chose DIT based on its reputation and practical focus, it is engineering technology students who indicated they are prepared for the 'real world' as they near graduation. Results also show, in terms of their own responses, that engineering and engineering technology students have fairly consistent views of their education and preparation for the workforce.

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Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts

Cited by 1,963 publications

References 108 publications

Social Category Diversity Promotes Premeeting Elaboration: The Role of Relationship Focus

Social Category Diversity Promotes Premeeting Elaboration: The Role of Relationship Focus

Thinking about the same things differently: Examining perceptions of a non-profit community sport organisation

Designing the Identities of Engineers

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