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Critical perspectives on management and organisations - Coggle Diagram
Critical perspectives on management and organisations
LO1 - Ideal worker and the professional identity
'Ideal worker' is available 24/7
Expected to prioritise work
Professional identity
Expected - employers expectations and beliefs
Experienced - individuals own expectations and beliefs
Organisations expect workers to conform to 'ideal worker'
Conflict arises when worker does not meet ideal worker image
LO3 - How do employees cope with conflicting professional identities
Congruence vs Conflict
Congruence
occurs when the expected and expereinced professional identities are in sync
conflict
most people experience conflict between their professional identities
researches focused on women especially those with children as they were the most likely to experience conflict
Professionals cope with conflict by straying from the expected identity
Straying and the tools to stray
Passing
Personally altering the structure of work
hiding personal infromation
focusing on cultivating a local client base
working on internal projects to reduce travel time
working from home
Revaling
Seeking assistance in restructuring work
sharing personal infromation
applying for reduced work loads
seeking parental and/or carers leave
LO 2 - How do organisations control employees professional identity?
Structure of work
Success dependent upon always prioritising work
Performance evaluations
Rewarding workers who prioritise work
LO4 - Integrated Identity Management Strategies for Multiple Audiences
Factors influencing the use of passing and revealing when interacting with audiences
Audience Status
Closeness of relationship
Perceived access to formal accommodations
Extremity of the conflict experienced
Spill over of perceptions across audiences
Efforts to pass or reval to one audience can spill over and influence the perceptions held by the professional by other audiences
Passing to high-status audiences tends to facilitate passing to equal or low-status audiences
Revealing to close colleagues often results in informal re-structuring of work
Revealing to high-status audiences often results in revealing to broader audiences across the organisation
LO5 - Consequences of using integrated identity management strategies
Gender differences
Women more likely to reveal to higher status
Men equally likely to pass or reveal
Women more likely to use formal accomodations
External perceptions and performance evaluation
High performance ratings
Workers who conform to expected professional identity
Workers who use passing
Lead to improved career path
Low performance rating
Workers who use revealing
Lead to an unstable career path