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Mind the Gap: Personal and Collective Identities at Work
- Source :
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Studies in the Education of Adults . Spr 2009 41(1):6-20. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: "dramaturgical selves"; "conformist selves"; and "resistant selves". The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to management attempts to narrow, maintain or widen the gap between personal and collective identities at work.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0266-0830
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Studies in the Education of Adults
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ870200
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative