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Understanding Identity and Organizations

Kate Kenny National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
National University of Ireland
Andrea Whittle Newcastle University
Hugh Willmott Cardiff Business School
© 2012   216 pages   SAGE Publications Ltd   
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Paperback ISBN: 9781848606807 £25.99
Hardcover ISBN: 9781848606791 £79.00
Ebook ISBN: 9781446266182
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 …
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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