IDEAL WORKER & PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
-Ideal worker: is one who is totally committed to and always available to fulfill their work duties.
-Expected to prioritise work ahead of family, personal needs, health and dedicate all resources to perform a job.
-Employees who embrace this expectation are richly rewarded (financially & career advancement), especially those performing professional or managerial jobs which encourages this behaviour
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PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY:
-role identities comprise of goals, values, beliefs, norms and time horizons associated with a given role
2 MAIN FORMS:
Expected: employer expectations and beliefs e.g. time & availability
Experienced: own expectations & beliefs e.g. what it means to be a lawyer
Organisations employing professionals expect their workers to conform to the ideal worker image
When a worker's experienced professional identity does not meet the ideal worker image conflict arises
The ideal worker image informs the expected professional identity of most professionals