Identity Under Construction
How Individuals Come to Define Themselves in Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5821152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blake E Ashforth (0000-0003-2244-529X, Arizona State University), Beth S Schinoff (0000-0002-3927-5787, Arizona State University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-137 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2327-0608 • E-ISSN: 2327-0616 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-041015-062322 |
| OpenAlex | W3177044644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 149 |
| References cited | 113 |
Individuals need a situated identity, or a clear sense of "who they are" in their local context, to function. Drawing largely on interpretivist research, we describe the process of identity construction in organizations. Organizations set the stage for members to construct their identities through sensebreaking, rendering individuals more receptive to organizational cues conveyed via sensegiving. Individuals utilize sensemaking to construe their situated identity as they progress toward a desired self. Affect (feeling "this is me"), behavior (acting as "me"), and cognition (thinking "this is me") are each viable and intertwined gateways to a situated identity that resonates with one's desired self and a given context. Individuals formulate identity narratives that link their past and present to a desired future, providing direction. If their identity enactments and narratives receive social validation, individuals feel more assured, fortifying their emergent identities. The result of these dynamics is a visceral understanding of self in the local context, facilitating adjustment
Identity formation · Narrative identity · Sensemaking · Situated cognition · Social constructionism · Social identity approach · Cultural Differences and Values · Management and Organizational Studies · Social Power and Status Dynamics
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Who to be? A narrative exploration of postgraduates’ desired future during the school-to-work transition
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A self-regulatory model of how future work selves change during job search and the school-to-work transition
Facilitating a successful school-to-work transition
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Identity embarrassment and identity defense
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The menopausal transition and women's workplace identity
Responses to occupational identity threats in sustainability transitions
Counselling in zero-Covid China
Accounting in Identity Regulation
Vulnerability and adaptive resilience in global platform work
Lamentable Letting Go
Sensemaking About the Organization–Occupation Relationship in Constructing Identification at Work
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Implicit Leadership Theories, Implicit Followership Theories, and Dynamic Processing of Leadership Information
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The Influence of the Covid-19 Event on Deviant Workplace Behavior Taking Tianjin, Beijing and Hebei as an Example
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The different ways of being true to self at work
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The dialectics of leadership identity construction
The pedagogical potential of identity work in leadership education – Controversies, confessions, and conclusions
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I am because I have to be
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Identities and interactions
Sensemaking in organizations
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How Are We Doing After 30 Years? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Feedback-Seeking Behavior
Exploring Causes of the Self‐serving Bias
Event System Theory
Pathways for Positive Identity Construction at Work
Narrating career, positioning identity
Constructing Professional Identity
Identification in Organizations
Who Will Lead and Who Will Follow? A Social Process of Leadership Identity Construction in Organizations.
Good Visions, Bad Micro-management and Ugly Ambiguity
Employability
Interlevel Influences on the Reconstruction of Professional Role Identity
Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation
The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior
Changing Faces
Future work selves
Proactivity during organizational entry
Cross-Cultural Code-Switching
A Review and Synthesis of Situational Strength in the Organizational Sciences
Engineering Selves
Reflections on the Looking Glass
Identities and Identity Work in Organizations
Being Regimented'
Identity as Narrative
Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry
Identity Motives
Integration of Social Identities in the Self
Sensemaking in Organizations
Newcomer Information Seeking
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control
Self-Perception Theory
Social identity and intergroup relations
Careers, identities, and institutions
Uncertainty–Identity Theory
Working the Past
Provisional Selves
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
Identity Motives Underlying Desired and Feared Possible Future Selves
Processes of Identity Development
Possible selves
Identifying organizational identification as a basis for attitudes and behaviors
Newcomers' Future Work Selves, Perceived Supervisor Support, and Proactive Socialization in Chinese Organizations
Changing career and changing identity
Yaqui Voices
Engineering Identity
Interpreting workplace identities
Reassessing the protean career concept
Technicians, clients, and professional authority
How does a newcomer construct identity? A socio‐cultural approach to workplace learning
Beyond self-esteem
Being yourself ’ in the electronic sweatshop
Working identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity
Articulating identities
Liminality and the practices of identity reconstruction
Group-based emotions as determinants of ingroup identification
Social action as the control of affect
Narrative, life story and manager identity
Close relationships as including other in the self
Culture and the distinctiveness motive
Development and validation of ego-identity status
Identities and Insecurities
Identity Matters
Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations
Identity Processes and Social Stress
The need to belong
Mind, Self, and Society
Central Life Interests
From 'Swinging Hard' to 'Rocking Out
Actors in Search of a Character
Shaping the Selves of Young Salespeople through Emotion Management
| Unique citing works | 149 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 147 |