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IDEAL WORKER AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY - Coggle Diagram
IDEAL WORKER AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
Ideal Worker
Prioritize work over family, personal needs and health
always available to fulfil duties
more likely to be richly rewarded
How Organisations Control Employees' Professional Identity?
Org: identity control mechanisms
Structure of work
Performance evaluations
Professional Identity
identity comprise of:
goals, values, beliefs, norms, interaction styles , and time horizons
main forms of professional identities
expected: employers expectations and beliefs are more important
experienced: own expectation and beliefs
employers want to employ: ideal worker image
conflict: when ideal worker image not met
consequences of using integrated identity management strategies
gender differences
woman less likely to engage in identity management strategies that allows passing high-status audiences and more likely to reveal.
Men are equally likely to use passing as well as revealing identity management strategies
woman are more likely to utilise formal accomdations then men
Senior percpetions of professionals dictate the performance evaluation system
external perceptions & performance evaluation
High performance ratings given to
those who embrace the expected professional identity
those who use passing (especially to senior-status audiences)
Low-performance rating given to those who use revealing (especially to senior) identity management strategies
Higher performance rating = improved career path/ low = unstable
How do employees cope with conflicting professional Identities?
Congruence VS Conflict
If employee, and experienced professional identities are in sync and congruent they are unlikely experience conflict.
historically researches focused on women as being the main professional who experience conflict however this idea is changing as society changes.
how to cope with conflict
professionals scope with conflicting identities by straying from expected identity
Passing: intentional or accidental misrepresentation of membership of the favoured group (prof identity). Camfoflarging the truth.
Revealing: intentional or accidental disclosure of non-membership of the favoured group.
Tools for straying:
Personally altering the structure of work (ie passing)
focusing on altering local client base
working on internal projects to reduce travel time.
working from home
Seeking assistance in restructuring work (ie revealing)
applying for resuced workloads
seeking parental/ carer's leave