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Identity Approach (identity + approach)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting66%

Kinds of Identity Approach

  • social identity approach
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    Selected Abstracts

    Identification in organizational contexts: linking theory and research from social and organizational psychology

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS, Issue 4 2001
    Rolf Van Dick
    Research in organizational psychology has shown that commitment to the organization correlates with different criteria of work effectiveness. This paper argues that social psychology and, particularly, the Social Identity Approach to intergroup relations extend the concept of commitment theoretically. Above that, it provides a broader conceptual framework for the understanding of underlying processes in the relation between organizational identification and job-related attitudes and behaviours. This theoretical analysis is completed with a review of empirical findings in different fields of application (group performance, work-related attitudes, group norms). [source]

    Attitude-behaviour consistency: the role of group norms, attitude accessibility, and mode of behavioural decision-making

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2003
    Joanne R. Smith
    The interplay between two perspectives that have recently been applied in the attitude area,the social identity approach to attitude-behaviour relations (Terry & Hogg, 1996) and the MODE model (Fazio, 1990a),was examined in the present research. Two experimental studies were conducted to examine the role of group norms, group identification, attitude accessibility, and mode of behavioural decision-making in the attitude-behaviour relationship. In Study 1 (N,=,211), the effects of norms and identification on attitude-behaviour consistency as a function of attitude accessibility and mood were investigated. Study 2 (N,=,354) replicated and extended the first experiment by using time pressure to manipulate mode of behavioural decision-making. As expected, the effects of norm congruency varied as a function of identification and mode of behavioural decision-making. Under conditions assumed to promote deliberative processing (neutral mood/low time pressure), high identifiers behaved in a manner consistent with the norm. No effects emerged under positive mood and high time pressure conditions. In Study 2, there was evidence that exposure to an attitude-incongruent norm resulted in attitude change only under low accessibility conditions. The results of these studies highlight the powerful role of group norms in directing individual behaviour and suggest limited support for the MODE model in this context. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

    Host country nationals as socializing agents: a social identity approach

    JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 3 2007
    Soo Min Toh
    A major challenge facing Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is finding ways to increase the success rates of managers assigned overseas. Our paper draws upon social identity theory to develop a model that focuses on the role of host country nationals (HCNs) in determining the adjustment of expatriate managers. Specifically, our model proposes attributes of the expatriate and the HCN that can increase the salience of national identity and outgroup categorization of expatriates by the HCNs. We also suggest how outgroup categorization interacts with a number of situational factors to influence the role of HCNs as socializing agents for expatriate newcomers. Finally, we propose that the socializing behaviors HCNs may display or withhold from the expatriate will affect the adjustment of the expatriate. Our model highlights the often-overlooked partners in the expatriate adjustment process and emphasizes the need for MNEs to be cognizant of the social dynamics between HCNs and expatriates in the host location. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

    Other voices, other rooms: differentiating social identity development in organisational and Pro-Am virtual teams

    NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 2 2010
    Jerry Hallier
    This paper advocates a social identity approach as a way to overcome the normative limitations of existing virtual team identity research. We also explore how social identity understandings of virtual team identity could benefit from incorporating comparisons between organisational and professional amateur virtual teams; and a focus on technologically mediated dialogues. [source]

    Diversity as a Basis for Shared Organizational Identity: The Norm Congruity Principle

    BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Issue 2007
    Floor Rink
    Although the social identity approach is generally used to explain the negative consequences of diversity for the formation of a common identity within organizations, we propose that social identity processes can also lead employees to evaluate their differences in a positive way. We propose norm-congruency as a central principle to understand these issues. We argue that when differences among team members in organizations are congruent with norms and expectations, diversity can become a basis for organizational identification. [source]

    Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Communication of Group Norms

    COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 1 2006
    Michael A. Hogg
    We articulate the role of norms within the social identity perspective as a basis for theorizing a number of manifestly communicative phenomena. We describe how group norms are cognitively represented as context-dependent prototypes that capture the distinctive properties of groups. The same process that governs the psychological salience of different prototypes, and thus generates group normative behavior, can be used to understand the formation, perception, and diffusion of norms, and also how some group members, for example, leaders, have more normative influence than others. We illustrate this process across a number of phenomena and make suggestions for future interfaces between the social identity perspective and communication research. We believe that the social identity approach represents a truly integrative force for the communication discipline. [source]