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| Key points of employee identity formation——Advances of identity work research |
| TIAN Xizhou, LU Hualei, FAN Sujie, LIU Yanxia |
| School of Business Administration, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067 |
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Abstract Identity work is the effort of employees to create, adjust, negotiate, modify, or discard an identity. In recent years, this topic has become a hot topic in management psychology research, but there is still no relevant literature in China. Identity work can not only solve the problem of identity tension and identity threats, but also negotiate the multiple identities generated during the role transition, coordinate the contradictions between personal identity and the work, and strengthen the sense of personal organizational identity. The similar concepts of identity work are identity negotiation and identity plays, inducing factors include identity threat, identity needs, role transformation and identity tension. And discourse, tangible objects, or symbols, behavior, and cognition are the main ways of identity work. Future studies can focus on individual differences in identity work, cultural differences, differences in active/passive identity work, and the specific processes and impact outcomes of identity work.
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