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Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work

Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work
Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work
This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: 'dramaturgical selves'; 'conformist selves'; and 'resistant selves'. The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to management attempts to narrow, maintain or widen the gap between personal and collective identities at work.
workplace learning environments, knowledge, expansive, restrictive
0266-0830
6-20
Felstead, Alan
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Fuller, Alison
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Jewson, Nick
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Unwin, Lorna
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Kakavelakis, Konstantinos
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Bishop, D.
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Felstead, Alan
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Jewson, Nick
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Unwin, Lorna
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Kakavelakis, Konstantinos
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Felstead, Alan, Fuller, Alison, Jewson, Nick, Unwin, Lorna, Kakavelakis, Konstantinos and Bishop, D. (2009) Mind the gap: personal and collective identities at work. Studies in the Education of Adults, 41 (1), 6-20.

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Abstract

This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: 'dramaturgical selves'; 'conformist selves'; and 'resistant selves'. The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to management attempts to narrow, maintain or widen the gap between personal and collective identities at work.

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Published date: 2009
Keywords: workplace learning environments, knowledge, expansive, restrictive

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Local EPrints ID: 63944
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63944
ISSN: 0266-0830
PURE UUID: b7d89835-30ff-48e1-a38a-76003a3f4210

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Date deposited: 20 Nov 2008
Last modified: 22 Jul 2022 21:19

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Author: Alan Felstead
Author: Alison Fuller
Author: Nick Jewson
Author: Lorna Unwin
Author: Konstantinos Kakavelakis
Author: D. Bishop

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