Role transitions in organizational life : an identity-based perspective / Blake E. Ashforth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Editors' Foreword / Arthur P. Brief, James P. Walsh -- Roles and Role Transitions -- What Are Roles? -- What Are Role Transitions? -- Role Identities -- Social Identity Theory and Identity Theory -- Integrating the Two Theories -- Development of Role Identities -- Temporary Role Identities -- Psychological Motives Aroused by Role Transitions -- Psychological Motives -- Role Identification, Role Disidentification, and Ambivalence -- Why Do Role Identification and Disidentification Matter? -- Attributes of Role Transitions -- Low-Magnitude Versus High-Magnitude Transitions -- Socially Desirable Versus Socially Undesirable Transitions -- Voluntary Versus Involuntary Transitions -- Predictable Versus Unpredictable Transitions -- Collective Versus Individual Transitions -- Long Versus Short Duration of Transition Period -- Reversible Versus Irreversible Transitions -- Regular Versus Irregular Transitions -- Role Exit -- Origins of Role Exit -- First Doubts -- Seeking and Weighing Alternatives -- The Turning Point -- Creating an Exrole -- Expanding the Ebaugh (1988) Model -- Role Entry: Situational Context -- Strong Versus Weak Situations -- Entry Shock -- Socialization Tactics -- Rites of Passage: Transition and Incorporation -- Normalization -- Role Entry: Individual Dynamics -- Role Learning -- Role Innovation -- Individual Differences -- The ABCs of Role Identification -- Social Validation -- Stress -- Role Transitions and the Life Span / Mel Fugate -- Within-Role Transition Cycles -- Between-Role Transition Cycles.

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"How does a person change diapers in the morning and run a division in the afternoon? How does a newly retired surgeon cope with the loss of ideality and status? Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-Based Perspective charts the processes through which individuals move between roles during the workday and over the worklife. The book focuses on transitioning - the social psychological dynamics of role entry and role exit. Role Transitions explores not only the intersection of roles and identity, but many relatively undeveloped concepts such as normalization, turning points, disidentification, temporary identities, liminality, identity narratives, selective forgetting, transition bridges, role reversals, and time compression.

Research from a diverse array of organizational settings and occupations is included, from the education of medical students to the promotion of salespeople and from the adjustment of camp counselors to the retirement of CEOs. Role Transitions will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of orgainizational behavior, human resource management, and social, developmental, and industrial psychology."--Jacket.

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