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Ideal workplace and professional identity - Coggle Diagram
Ideal workplace and professional identity
Ideal worker
Employees expected to prioritise work ahead of family,personal and health needs
Totally committed to and available to fulfill his/her duties
24/7 365 day work cycle
Employees who embrace this expectation are richly rewarded
Coping with Conflicting identities
Congruence
Employees expected and experienced identities are in sync
Conflict
Historically, researchers considered women especially with children to be the main cohort of conflict
Straying from the expected identity
Passing
Intentional or accidental misrepresentation of membership in the favoured group: camouflaging
Revealing
Intentional or accidental disclosure of non membership in the group
Tools for Straying
Passing
local client base
internal projects to reduce travel time
Personally altering the structure of work
Working from home
Revealing
Seeking assistance in restructuring work
Applying for reduced workload
Parental or carers leave
Professional Identity
Role identities: goals, values, beliefs, norms, lifestyle
Two types of identities
Expected
Employers's expectations are of paramount importance
Experienced
Own expectations and beliefs
Organisations employing professionals expect them to conform to their ideal image
Conflict arises when the worker's experienced identity does not meet the ideal image
Professional Identity Control
Structure of Work
Prioristising work demand over all other demands
Being available to employer
Reinforcing can be done through rewards and promotions and incentives
Performance Evaluation
Self fulfilling prophecy
Positive Reinforcement
Consequences of using integrated identity management
Gender Differences
Integrated Identity Management
Factors influencing passing or revealing
Closeness of relationship
Perceived access to formal accomodations
Audience Status
Extremity of conflict
Spillover of perceptions across audiences
Passing to high status audience tends to facilitate passing to equal or low status audience
Revealing to close colleagues can lead to informal restructuring of work
Efforts to pass or reveal to one audience can influence the perception held by other audiences(same or lower level)
Revealing to high status audiences can lead to revealing the broader audiences in the org