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Week 9 (LO2: How do organisations control employees’ professional …
Week 9
LO2: How do organisations control employees’ professional
identity?
Performance evaluations
Reinforcing this through rewarding those who fulfil ‘expected’ professional identity requirements
Together
creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of professionals continuously adopting the ‘expected’ professional identity
Structure of work
successful performance dependant upon always prioritising work over personal life
always being available to the employer
LO3: How do employees cope with conflicting professional identities?
How do professionals cope with conflict?
Passing
misinterpretation of membership in the favored group
Revealing
disclosure of non- membership in the favoured group.
Tools for straying
Seeking assistance in restricting work(revealing)
applying for reduced workloads
seeking parental or career's leave
Hiding or sharing personal information(passing and revealing)
How professional control their personal information dictate if they used either passing or revealing to alter the work structure to cope.
Personally altering the structure of the work(passing)
Focusing on cultivating a local client base
working on internet projects
working form home
Congruence vs conflict
Employees are unlikely to experience conflict if they are in sync or congruent.
Women with young children are more likely to face conflict.
LO5: Consequences of using integrated identity
management strategies for professionals
External perceptions and performance evaluation
Gender differences
LO1 An Ideal worker and the professional identity
An ideal worker
Prioritises work over family, personal needs and even health
Totally committed to and always available to fulfil his or her work duties
Employees who embrace these expectations are richly rewarded
Professional identity
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
Two main forms of professional identities
Expected: employer expectations and beliefs
Experienced: own expectations and beliefs
This expectation has lead to persisting gender
inequality in the workplace
Role identities comprise of goals, values, beliefs,
norms, interaction styles, and time horizons
associated with a given role
LO4: Integrated Identity Management Strategies for Multiple Audiences
Passing or revealing- Influences:
Connection/ relationship
Decide to pass to those with whom they have limited contact
Decide to reveal to those with whom individual has established bond with
Access
Decide to pass if no flexible arrangements are apparent
Decide to reveal if there is an awareness of suitable arrangements
Level of 'audience'
Decide to pass to those who are superior
Shows influence of ontrol and superiority
Decide to reveal to those in same positions
Urgency
Decide to reveal if situation requires urgency (e.g. emergencies)
Decide to pass if there is no evident urgency
Crossover between 2 options:
Pass to superiors- pass to subordinates/same level
Reveal to those with whom you have bond->arrangements made-> pass to superiors
Reveal to superiors-> reveal to same and lower level
Influence of strategy on 1 audience after employing strategy in another