Academy of Management Review Vol. 35 No. 4 2010
Identification in organizations: The role of self-concept orientations and identification motives
Abstract
We develop an integrative framework that sheds light on managing multiple targets of employee identifications—specifically, coworker, workgroup, and organizational identifications. Drawing from cross-cultural and gender studies, we distinguish between individual tendencies (self-concept orientations) and self-definitions with specific relationships or groups (identifications). We explicate the role of individualist, relationist, and collectivist self-concept orientations, as well as identification motives, on organizationally relevant identifications and conclude with a discussion of the implications for identification in organizations.
- DOI
- 10.5465/amr.35.4.zok516
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 516-538
- Language
- en
- Sources
- ris:amr.ris openalex crossref