Exploring positive identities and organizations : building a theoretical and research foundation / edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberts, Laura Morgan.

Dutton, Jane E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Positive psychology.

Identity (Psychology).

Organization.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 549 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2009]

Summary:

In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics and new theoretical approaches to identity through the specific focus on positive identities of individuals, groups, organizations and communities.

This volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars. In chapters that build theoretical and empirical bridges between identity and growth, authenticity, relationships, hope, sustainability, leadership, resilience, cooperation, and community reputation and other important variables, the authors jumpstart an exciting domain of research on new ways that work organizations are sites of and contributors to identities that are beneficial or valuable to individuals or collectives.

This volume invites readers to consider, "When and how does applying a positive lens to the construct of identity generate new insights for organizational researchers?" A unique feature of this volume is that it brings together explorations of identity from multiple levels of analysis: individual, dyadic, group, organization and community. Commentary chapters integrate the chapters within each level of analysis, illuminate core themes and unearth new questions.

The volume is designed to accomplish three objectives:

to establish Positive Identities and Organizations as an interdisciplinary, multi-level domain of inquiry

to integrate a focus on Positive Identity with existing theory and research on identity and organizations

to map out a vibrant new research territory in organizational studies

This volume will appeal to an international community of scholars in Management, Psychology, and Sociology, as well as practitioners who seek to generate positive identity-related dynamics, states and outcomes in work organizations.

Contents:

Positive identities and organizations : an introduction and invitation / Jane E. Dutton, Laura Morgan Roberts, and Jeffrey Bednar

Growing pains and gains : framing identity dynamics as opportunities for identity growth / Glen E. Kreiner and Mathew L. Sheep

Who am I now? Sensemaking and identity in posttraumatic growth / Sally Maitlis

Experiencing hope in organizational lives / Arne Carlsen and Tyrone Pitsis

Me, myself, and I : the benefits of work-identity complexity / Brianna Barker Caza and Marie Gee Wilson

Checking your identities at the door? Positive relationships between nonwork and work identities / Nancy P. Rothbard and Lakshmi Ramarajan

Bringing the inside out : enhancing authenticity and positive identity in organizations / Laura Morgan Roberts ... [et al.]

Commentary : positive identities and the individual / Blake E. Ashforth

Identity work during boundary moments : managing positive identities through talk and embodied interaction / Curtis D. LeBaron, Phillip Glenn, and Michael P. Thompson

Assuming the mantle : unpacking the process by which individuals internalize a leader identity / D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, and Natalie C. Cotton

Positive identities in action : a model of mentoring self-structures and the motivation to mentor / Belle Rose Ragins

Renarrating positive relational identities in organizations : self-narration as a mechanism for strategic emotion management in interpersonal interactions / Shirli Kopelman, Lydia L. Chen, and Joseph Shoshana

Creating and sustaining cooperation in interdependent groups : positive relational identities, identity confirmation, and cooperative capacity / Laurie P. Milton

Collaboration across knowledge boundaries within diverse teams : reciprocal expertise affirmation as an enabling condition / Lucy H. MacPhail, Kathryn S. Roloff, and Amy C. Edmondson

Commentary : the elusive search for a positive relational identity : grappling with multiplicity and conflict / Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Fiona Lee

Generative organizational identity change : approaching organizational authenticity as a process / Kevin G. Corley and Spencer H. Harrison

E pluribus unum : multiple identities and the organizational self / Michael G. Pratt and Matthew S. Kraatz

Organizational identity as a stakeholder resource / Shelley L. Brickson and Grace Lemmon

Fostering sustainability-focused organizational identities / Aimee Hamilton and Dennis A. Gioia

Organizational mechanisms underlying positive community identity and reputation / Christopher Marquis and Gerald F. Davis

Commentary : finding the positive in positive organizational identities / Mary Ann Glynn and Ian J. Walsh

Forging ahead : positive identities and organizations as a research frontier / Laura Morgan Roberts, Jane E. Dutton, and Jeffrey Bednar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781841697635

184169763X

9781841697642

1841697648

OCLC:

259266329