Understanding Identity and Organizations
Understanding Identity and Organizations

Author: Kate Kenny

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1446266184

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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 re-defining 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.

Identity in Organizations
Identity in Organizations

Author: David A. Whetten

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1998-07-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1452263183

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How do people identify with organizations? What role does organizational identity play in organizational strategy? Identity in Organizations investigates the fundamental character of organizational identity and individual identification with an organization. Through the use of an unconventional, conversational format the reader is drawn into a provocative discussion among key organizational scholars that focuses on three different paradigmatic views of identity: a functionalist perspective, an interpretive perspective, and a postmodern perspective. Similarities and distinctions among these ways of understanding are explored and numerous theoretical and practical insights are gained. This groundbreaking book concludes with a discussion of the relevance of identity as a construct in organizational study and observations on conversation and theory building. Many well-known scholars participate in the conversation, including Jay Barney, Denny Gioia, Mary Jo Hatch, Stuart Albert, Anne Huff, Judi McLean Parks, and Rod Kramer. Identity in Organizations will be of interest to professionals and students of organizational studies, human resource management, industrial psychology, sociology of work, psychology, and organizational communication.

Constructing Identity in and Around Organizations
Constructing Identity in and Around Organizations

Author: Steve Maguire

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0199640998

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The second volume in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies series focuses on the notion of identity, in particular how individual and organizational identities evolve and come to be constructed through on-going activities and interactions.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity

Author: Michael G. Pratt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0199689571

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The topic of organizational identity has been fast growing in management and organization studies in the last 20 years. Identity studies focus on how organizations define themselves and what they stand for in relation to both internal and external stakeholders. Organizational identity (OI) scholars study both how such self-definitions emerge and develop, as well as their implications for OI, leadership and change, among others. We believe there are at least four inter-related reasons for the growing importance of OI. OI addresses essential questions of social existence by asking: Who are we and who are we becoming as a collective? It is a relational construct connecting concepts and ideas that are often viewed as oppositional, such as "us" and "them" or "similar" and "differen." OI is also nexus concept serving to gather multiple central constructs, also represented in this Handbook. Finally, OI is inherently useful, as knowing who you are is the foundation for being able to state what you stand for and what you are promising to others, no matter their relation with the organization. The Handbook provides a road-map to the OI field organized in over 25 chapters across seven sections. Each chapter not only offers a broad overview of its particular topic, each also advances new knowledge and discusses the future of research in its area of focus.

Identity and the Modern Organization
Identity and the Modern Organization

Author: Caroline A. Bartel

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1135599637

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Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and management to facilitate a multi-disciplinary, multi-level

Organizational Identity
Organizational Identity

Author: Mary Jo Hatch

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 0199269467

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Ranging from theoretical contributions to empirical studies, the readings in this volume address key issues of organizational identity, e.g. multiple identities and change in identity. These issues are addressed by writers working in diverse fields of study.

Organizations and Identity
Organizations and Identity

Author: Gregory S. Larson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1509507019

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The question “who am I?” represents one of the key challenges of contemporary life in a globalized world. For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question. In this book, Gregory Larson and Rebecca Gill explain how identities are formed, managed, and regulated in our interactions with organizations, and why identity has become so relevant in modern life. Their examination includes frameworks for organizing and understanding identity scholarship, the nature of multiple identities and how these are managed, and the use of identity as a way to control workers. Organizations and Identity introduces a discursive approach to the topic, highlighting what is unique and consequential about studying identity from a communication perspective. It is essential reading for students and scholars of organizational communication.

Organizational Identity in Practice
Organizational Identity in Practice

Author: Lin Lerpold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0415398398

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Exploring empirical studies and cases of organizational identity, this key book gives scholars, students and managers valuable ideas on how to deal with organizational identity challenges within firms.

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations
Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations

Author: Iiris Aaltio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134490747

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Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explore innovative methods for the critical theorizing of organizational cultures. In particular, the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for individuals and organizational outcomes in terms of gender. The book also introduces research designs, methods and methodologies by which can be used to explore the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the culture of organizations.

Organizational Culture and Identity
Organizational Culture and Identity

Author: Martin Parker

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-01-28

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780761952435

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Organizational Culture and Identity discusses the literature concerned with culture in organizations and explains why the term has been invoked with such enthusiasm. Martin Parker presents further ways of thinking about organizations and culture which suggest that organizational cultures should be seen as `fragmented unities' in which members identify themselves as collective at some times and divided at others.