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Chen, Yaru and Reay, Trish (2021) Responding to imposed job redesign : the evolving dynamics of work and identity in restructuring professional identity. Human Relations, 74 (10). pp. 1541-1571. doi:10.1177/0018726720906437 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720906437
Abstract
Professionals are increasingly prevalent in organizations and are required to change their professional practice in response to requirements from employers. It is therefore important to understand how professionals respond when they are required to conduct work that does not match with their identity. We investigated this situation in an English public services organisation where a major work redesign initiative required professionals to engage in new tasks that they did not want to do. Based on our findings, we develop a process model of professional identity restructuring that includes the following four stages: (1) resisting identity change and mourning loss of previous work, (2) conserving professional identity and avoiding the new work, (3) parking professional identity and learning the new work, and (4) retrieving and modifying professional identity and affirming the new work. We contribute to the literature by showing how parking one’s professional identity facilitates the creation of liminal space, which enables the restructuring of one’s professional identity. Our model also explicates the dynamics between professional work and professional identity, showing how requirements for new professional work can lead to a new professional identity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Professional employees, Corporate reorganizations -- Psychological aspects, Organizational change -- Psychological aspects, Organizational change -- Social aspects, Identity (Psychology) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 74 | ||||||||
| Number: | 10 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1541-1571 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726720906437 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Chen, Yaru and Reay, Trish (2019) Responding to imposed job redesign : the evolving dynamics of work and identity in restructuring professional identity Human Relations. Copyright © 2019. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hum | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 January 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 February 2020 | ||||||||
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