Social Identity Processes in Organizational Contexts

354 Pages·2001·16.402 MB·English

by  Michael A. Hogg (editor), Deborah J. Terry (editor)

SOCIAL IDENTITY PROCESSES
IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS
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SOCIAL IDENTITY
PROCESSES IN
ORGANIZATIONAL
CONTEXTS
Edited by
Michael A. Hogg and
J.
Deborah Terry
University of Queensland
First published by
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Social identity processes in organizational contexts / edited by Michael A. Hogg and Deborah J. Terry.
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1. Group identity. 2. Organizational behavior. I. Hogg, Michael A., 1954- II. Terry, Deborah J.
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Contents
About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Social Identity Theory and Organizational Processes 1
J.
Michael A. Hogg & Deborah Terry
2 Social Identity Dynamics in Modern Organizations: 13
An Organizational Psychology/Organizational
Behavior Perspective
Michael G. Pratt
3 Which Hat to Wear? The Relative Salience of Multiple 31
Identities in Organizational Contexts
Blake E. Ashforth & Scott A. Johnson
4 Identity Orientation and Intergroup Relations 49
in Organizations
Shelley Brickson & Marilynn Brewer
5 Majority-Minority Relations in Organizations: 67
Challenges and Opportunities
Miles Hewstone, Robin Martin, Claudia Hammer-Hewstone,
J.
Richard Crisp, & Alberto Voci
6 Self-Categorization and Work-Group Socialization 87
Richard L. Moreland, John M. Levine, & Jamie C. McMinn
v
vi CONTENTS
7 Social Identity, Commitment, and Work Behavior 101
Naomi Ellemers
8 Ambiguous Organizational Memberships: Constructing 115
Organizational Identities in Interactions With Others
Caroline Bartel & Jane Dutton
9 Organizational Identification: Psychological Anchorage 131
and Turnover
Dominic Abrams & Georgina Randsley de Moura
10 Cooperation in Organizations: A Social Identity Perspective 149
Tom Tyler
11 Identity and Trust in Organizations: One Anatomy 167
of a Productive but Problematic Relationship
Roderick M. Kramer
12 How Status and Power Differences Erode Personal 181
and Social Identities at Work: A System Justification
Critique of Organizational Applications of Social
Identity Theory
John T. Jost & Kimberly D. Elsbach
13 Social Identification, Group Prototypicality, and 197
Emergent Leadership
Michael A. Hogg
14 Your Wish Is Our Command: The Role of Shared 213
Social Identity in Translating a Leader's Vision
Into Followers' Action
s. Alexander Haslam & Michael J. Platow
15 Intergroup Relations and Organizational Mergers 229
J.
Deborah Terry
CONTENTS vii
16 Organizational Identity After a Merger: Sense of 249
Continuity as the Key to Postmerger Identification
Daan van Knippenberg & Esther van Leeuwen
17 Corporate Mergers and Step family Marriages: 265
Identity, Harmony, and Commitment
Samuel L. Gaertner, Betty A. Bachman, Jack Dovidio,
& Brenda S. Banker
References 283
Author Index 325
Subject Index 337
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About the Editors
Michael A. Hogg is professor of social psychology and director of the Centre
for Research on Group Processes at the University of Queensland. He is also
director of research for the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and is a
fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research interests
are in group processes, intergroup relations, collective self-conception, and so
cial identity and self-categorization processes. He has published 15 books and
over 140 research articles, chapters, and other scholarly works. He is the found
ing editor, with Dominic Abrams, of the journal Group Processes and Inter
group Relations and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals in
cluding Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, and European Review of Social Psychology. His most re
cent books include, with Abrams, Social Identity and Social Cognition (1999)
and Intergroup Relations: Essential Readings (2001); with Foddy, Smithson,
and Schneider, Resolving Social Dilemmas (1999); and, with Tindale, Blackwell
Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes (2001).
Deborah J. Terry is professor of social psychology and head of the School of
Psychology at the University of Queensland. Her main research interests are
attitudes, social influence, persuasion, group processes, and intergroup rela
tions. She also has applied research interests in organizational and health psy
chology. She has published more than 90 journal articles and book chapters in
these areas, and is editor, with Gallois and McCamish, of The Theory of Rea
soned Action: Its Application to AIDS-Preventive Behaviour (1993) and, with
Hogg, of Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context: The Role of Group Norms
and Group Membership (1999). She is on the editorial board of the journals
Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, Practice, and Group Processes and Inter
group Relations.
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