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Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness, and Consequences of Narrative Identity Work in Macro Work Role Transitions

01 Jan 2010-Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management)-Vol. 35, Iss: 1, pp 135-154
TL;DR: This paper propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions, using feedback from their interactions, they revise both the stories and repertoires.
Abstract: Self-narratives—stories that make a point about the narrator—help people revise and reconstruct identities during work role transitions. We propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions. Using feedback from their interactions, they revise both the stories and repertoires. Successful completion of the transition is facilitated by enduring and coherent repertoire changes to express the new role identity.

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TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as discussed by the authors, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
Abstract: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizational context.
Abstract: We propose that a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions. Through this claiming-granting process, individuals internalize an identity as leader or follower, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizational context. We specify the dynamic nature of this process, antecedents to claiming and granting, and an agenda for research on leadership identity and development.

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  • ...While the idea of social interactionism is not new to the identity literature (Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), the identity literature is only beginning to explain when social interaction is more or less important for identity construction (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors organize research on work-related identities into a four-perspective typology that captures different ways identities can be "positive" and use these four perspectives to develop propositions about how different forms of positive workrelated identity construction can strengthen employees through building social resources.
Abstract: In this paper we organize research on work-related identities into a four-perspective typology that captures different ways identities can be “positive.” Each perspective on positive identity—virtue, evaluative, developmental, and structural—highlights a different source of positivity and opens new avenues for theorizing about identity construction. We use these four perspectives to develop propositions about how different forms of positive work-related identity construction can strengthen employees through building social resources.

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  • ...…capture features or attributes that individuals associate with themselves (Markus, 1977), or they might be represented in a narrative form (McAdams, 1993), as individuals story who they are in interaction with others (Gergen & Gergen, 1988) and over time (Carlsen, 2008; Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010)....

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  • ...Each perspective on positive identity—virtue, evaluative, developmental, and structural—highlights a different source of positivity and opens new avenues for theorizing about identity construction....

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TL;DR: Mindfulness research activity is surging within organizational science as discussed by the authors, and emerging evidence across multiple fields suggests that mindfulness is fundamentally connected to many aspects of workplace functioning, but this knowledge base has not been systematically integrated to date.

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  • ...…implications for phenomena driven by narrative identities, ranging from personality consistency (Crescentini & Capurso, 2015) and identity work (Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010) to sense-making (Weick, 1995), intergroup relations (Ashforth & Mael, 1989), and organizational identification processes…...

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TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
Abstract: In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

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  • ...…the support of the community, which, in turn, helps newcomers feel a greater sense of belonging within the community (Holland et al., 2001; Lave & Wenger, 1991).7 Identities claimed successfully across a range of social interactions become more sa lient and central; identities premised on…...

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  • ...…including canonical elements of plot, such as "hitting bottom," while newcom ers to Codependents Anonymous adopt refer ences to dysfunctional families as a constant fixture of their life stories (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, & Cain, 2001; Irvine, 2000; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Snow & Machalek, 1984)....

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  • ...Scholars concur that self-narratives are both expressive of and constitutive of identity (Bruner, 1990; Ger genf 1994; Josselsonf 2004; Lave & Wenger, 1991; McAdams, 1996; Pentland# 1999)....

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  • ...…get ting a second interview or job offer, being in vited to important events, or being revealed sen sitive information (Bartel & Dutton, 2001; Lave & Wenger, 1991; O'Mahony & Bechky, 2006)?may be immediately and objectively discernible, de crypting others might take time or depend on the…...

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  • ...…to sustain feelings of authenticity, despite the changes a person is experiencing (Ibarra, 2003), and to fashion a "culturally appropriate self," complete with stories deemed appropriate by a new professional group or community (Kunda, 1992; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Sutton, 1991; Van Maanen, 1998)....

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01 Jan 1959
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
Abstract: hen an individual enters the presence of oth ers, they commonly seek to acquire information about him or to bring into play information about him already possessed. They will be interested in his general socio-economic status, his concep tion of self, his attitude toward them, his compe tence, his trustworthiness, etc. Although some of this information seems to be sought almost as an end in itself, there are usually quite practical reasons for acquiring it. Information about the individual helps to define the situation, enabling others to know in advance what he will expect of them and what they may expect of him. Informed in these ways, the others will know how best to act in order to call forth a desired response from him. For those present, many sources of information become accessible and many carriers (or “signvehicles”) become available for conveying this information. If unacquainted with the individual, observers can glean clues from his conduct and appearance which allow them to apply their previ ous experience with individuals roughly similar to the one before them or, more important, to apply untested stereotypes to him. They can also assume from past experience that only individuals of a par ticular kind are likely to be found in a given social setting. They can rely on what the individual says about himself or on documentary evidence he provides as to who and what he is. If they know, or know of, the individual by virtue of experience prior to the interaction, they can rely on assumptions as to the persistence and generality of psychological traits as a means of predicting his present and future behavior. However, during the period in which the indi vidual is in the immediate presence of the others, few events may occur which directly provide the others with the conclusive information they will need if they are to direct wisely their own activity . Many crucial facts lie beyond the time and place of interaction or lie concealed within it. For example, the “true” or “real” attitudes, beliefs, and emotions of the individual can be ascertained only indirectly , through his avowals or through what appears to be involuntary expressive behavior. Similarly , if the individual offers the others a product or service, they will often find that during the interaction there will be no time and place immediately available for eating the pudding that the proof can be found in. They will be forced to accept some events as con ventional or natural signs of something not directly available to the senses. In Ichheiser ’s terms, 1 the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.…

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"Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, ..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Since people rely on others' reactions to confirm their self views (Down & Reveley, 2009; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), achieving agreement on the moral lends weight to the identity claimed in that in teraction....

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  • ...There is shared agreement that identities are multiple, mutable, and socially constructed (Baumeister, 1998; Cooley, 1902; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934) but coexist within a self that integrates diverse experiences into a unity (Baumeister, 1998; Ge cas, 1982; Markus & Wurf, 1987).2 Identity work has…...

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  • ...Narrative episodes, like all social interactions, are evaluated relative to the motives that engendered them (Goffman, 1959; Leary, 1996)....

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  • ...Effectiveness of Narrative Identity Work Narrative episodes, like all social interac tions, are evaluated relative to the motives that engendered them (Goffman, 1959; Leary, 1996)....

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  • ...Since people rely on others’ reactions to confirm their selfviews (Down & Reveley, 2009; Goffman, 1959; Mead, 1934), achieving agreement on the moral lends weight to the identity claimed in that interaction....

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TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.
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"Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, ..." refers background or methods in this paper

  • ...Repeated storytelling helps speakers identify their own preferences and learn competing interpretations, unfamiliar views, and others’ stories (Polletta & Lee, 2006; Weick, 1995)....

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  • ...…Potter, 1992), and indirectly, through their partic ipation in a range of cultural activities, such as reading fiction and biography and watching films or the news (Swidler, 1986), as well as via their sensemaking efforts in the wake of signif icant events (Ebaugh, 1988; Louis, 1980b; Weick, 1995)....

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  • ...…2018 04:35:55 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 2010 Ibarra and Barbulescu 149 the bones" of the frequently cited enactment perspective?that isf the idea that "people learn their identities by projecting them into an en vironment and observing the consequences" (Weick, 1995: 23)....

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  • ...Repeated storytelling helps speakers identify their own preferences and learn competing interpretations, unfamiliar views, and others' stories (Polletta & Lee, 2006; Weick, 1995)....

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  • ...Accounts, narratives, and other rhetorical strategies form an impor tant part of this arsenal for identity work (Ash forth, 2001; Scott & Lyman, 1968; Van Maanen, 1998; Weick, 1995)....

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"Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, ..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...Our model proposes feedback loops or double interacts (Weick, 1979) between narrative identity work episodes and repertoire processes over time, as unsuccessful episodes lead people...

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  • ...Our model proposes feedback loops or double interacts (Weick, 1979) between narrative identity work episodes and repertoire processes over time, as unsuccessful episodes lead people 6Our notion of narrative repertoire is akin to Swidler's (1986: 273) idea of a "toolkit" of "habits, skills and…...

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