By Laura Morgan Roberts, Jane E. Dutton

Within the new international of labor and organisations, developing and retaining a good id is consequential and demanding for people, for teams and for corporations. New demanding situations for optimistic id building and upkeep require new idea. This edited quantity uncovers new issues and new theoretical techniques to id throughout the particular specialize in confident identities of people, teams, enterprises and groups. This quantity goals to forge new floor in identification examine and corporations via a compilation of recent frame-breaking chapters on confident id written through best identification students. In chapters that construct theoretical and empirical bridges among id and progress, authenticity, relationships, desire, sustainability, management, resilience, cooperation, and neighborhood popularity and different very important variables, the authors jumpstart a thrilling area of analysis on new ways in which paintings organisations are websites of and members to identities which are worthy or worthy to members or collectives. This quantity invitations readers to contemplate, "When and the way does utilizing a good lens to the build of id generate new insights for organizational researchers?" a special function of this quantity is that it brings jointly explorations of identification from a number of degrees of study: person, dyadic, workforce, association and neighborhood. observation chapters combine the chapters inside every one point of research, remove darkness from middle subject matters and unearth new questions. the amount is designed to complete 3 goals: to set up confident Identities and enterprises as an interdisciplinary, multi-level area of inquiry To combine a spotlight on optimistic id with present concept and study on identification and enterprises To map out a colourful new learn territory in organizational experiences . This quantity will entice a global group of students in administration, Psychology, and Sociology, in addition to practitioners who search to generate confident identity-related dynamics, states and results in paintings businesses.

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Whetten, D. , & Godfrey, P. C. (1998). Identity in organizations: building theory through conversations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Part II Identities and Individuals in Organizations 2 Growing Pains and Gains: Framing Identity Dynamics as Opportunities for Identity Growth Glen E. Kreiner and Mathew L. 33 Identity Work Tactic 4: Experimenting With Possible Selves .................... 37 Looking Forward: Future Research on Identity Growth ............................ 40 Conclusion .......................................................................................................

ROADMAP FOR THE BOOK The book is divided into three major sections, each corresponding roughly to a different level of analysis. In the first section we begin with a focus 12 • Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations on positive identity at the individual level and move progressively to more “macro” perspectives in the other sections. The second section of the book includes chapters that examine positive identity at the relational and group level. The third section includes chapters that focus on positive identity at the organizational and community level.

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