Work And Identity

Author : Herminia Ibarra
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422160657

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Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra Pdf

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into RealityWhether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession.In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we’ve learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become.Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.Through engrossing stories—from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist—Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: Explore possible selves Craft and execute "identity experiments" Create "small wins" that keep momentum going Survive the rocky period between career identities Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition Make time for reflection—without missing out on windows of opportunity Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

Author : Sara James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317102601

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Making a Living, Making a Life by Sara James Pdf

In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising the question of whether people continue to feel motivated to dedicate their lives to their work, or must now look to other areas of life for meaning. Based on rich, in-depth interviews conducted with workers of different ages and across a broad range of occupations in the major city of Melbourne, Making a Living, Making a Life reveals that work continues to be a source of pride, passion and purpose, the author shedding light on the ways in which cultural narratives, collective meanings and structural factors influence people’s feelings about work. An engaging and empirically grounded examination of the meaning and centrality of work to people’s lives in today’s 'liquid' modern world, this book will appeal to sociologists with interests in cultural sociology, social theory, ethics, the sociology of work and questions of identity.

Author : Elizabeth Perle McKenna
Publisher : Delta
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307794963

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When Work Doesn't Work Anymore by Elizabeth Perle McKenna Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Perle McKenna challenges the outdated system of work for professional women, and encourages readers to re-examine work as their sole identities, and, if they are unhappy, to allow room for their Lives. For every worn-out, emotionally depleted female professional who has ever sighed, "there has got to be a better way," here is the revolutionary book by Elizabeth Perle McKenna--herself a former publishing executive--that explores women's relationship with work. For decades, women have succeeded at traditional male jobs, but now, deep in the second stage of the feminist movement, they want lives that are integrated and whole. Based on original research and containing hundreds of interviews with prominent working women, this book exposes the inherent conflict between the way work traditionally is structured and rewarded, and what women desire and value in their lives. More important, it suggests new ways for women to identify their values, reclaim their identities, and define success on their own terms. Most importantly, this is not just another book about working mothers. Liz Perle McKenna deconstructs the myth that women can have it all, and shows that they risk true happiness until they give up that impossible ideal. The author's focus extends to every working woman who will most likely face a life-altering situation at some point in her career and will need to redefine what success means to her. Any woman who has been working for more than a few years will identify strongly with the issues raised here, and will be rewarded by the insights she gleans from this vital book.

Author : Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel,Emily K. Abel,Margaret K. Nelson,Professor Margaret K Nelson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791402630

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Circles of Care by Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel,Emily K. Abel,Margaret K. Nelson,Professor Margaret K Nelson Pdf

This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writing about caregiving because it focuses on the providers rather than the care recipients. It looks at the experience of women caregivers in specific settings, exploring what caregiving actually entails and what it means in their lives

Author : John Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317657996

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Identity at Work by John Chandler Pdf

This insightful book draws on a range of contemporary and classic studies to explore the connection between the personal experience of work and the wider social structures in which it takes place. Identity at Work examines key social identities relevant to the workplace, such as those based on gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race, disability, age, occupation, class and organizational membership. Using research from a wide variety of countries and academic approaches, this book provides a readable and engaging introduction to the issues, exploring how people experience work, understand and present themselves at work, and relate to others. Providing an accessible investigation of work and identity, this text will be valuable to students looking at organizational behaviour, HRM, diversity management and the sociology of work.

Author : Dawn R. Norris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813573823

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Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health by Dawn R. Norris Pdf

Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong influence of society’s expectations. For example, men in Norris’s study often used the stereotype of the “male breadwinner” to define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including “shifting” away from a work-related identity and instead emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as “a parent”), or conversely “sustaining” a work-related identity even though he or she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social factors—often out of the control of unemployed people—that make these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.

Author : Paul du Gay
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803979282

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Consumption and Identity at Work by Paul du Gay Pdf

The realms of consumption have typically been seen to be distinct from those of work and production. This book examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work. In particular, Paul du Gay shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and those required of employees are increasingly difficult to distinguish. Both consumers and employees are represented as autonomous, responsible, calculating individuals. They are constituted as such in the language of consumer cultures and the all-pervasive discourses of enterprise whereby persons are required to be

Author : George A. Akerlof,Rachel E. Kranton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400834181

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Identity Economics by George A. Akerlof,Rachel E. Kranton Pdf

How identity influences the economic choices we make Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities—and not just economic incentives—influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people—facing the same economic circumstances—would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration—and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity—their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be—may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being.

Author : Stephen A. Webb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315306940

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Professional Identity and Social Work by Stephen A. Webb Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Matters of professional identity and social work -- Part I Key concepts and perspectives -- 2 Perspectives on professional identity: the changing world of the social worker -- 3 What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it? -- 4 Materiality, performance and the making of professional identity -- 5 Constructing the social, constructing social work -- Part II Location, context and workplace culture -- 6 Vocation and professional identity: social workers at home and abroad -- 7 Risk work in the formation of the 'professional' in child protection social work -- 8 Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare -- 9 Field, capital and professional identity: social work in health care -- 10 Inter-professional collaboration: strengthening or weakening social work identity? -- 11 Commitment in the making of professional identity -- 12 Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children: towards a praxis of residential childcare -- Part III Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice -- 13 Shaping identity? The professional socialisation of social work students -- 14 Credible performances: affect and professional identity -- 15 Making professional identity: narrative work and fateful moments -- 16 Professional identity as a matter of concern -- Index

Author : Roman Ingarden,Adam Czerniawski,Jean G Harrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781349092543

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The Work of Music by Roman Ingarden,Adam Czerniawski,Jean G Harrell Pdf

Author : Professor Jonathan Paquette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409461548

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Cultural Policy, Work and Identity by Professor Jonathan Paquette Pdf

How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agents. It analyses the relationship between cultural policy, identity and professionalism and draws from a variety of cultural policies around the world to provide insights on the identity construction processes that are at play in cultural institutions. This book reappraises the important question of professional identities in cultural policy studies, museum studies and heritage studies. The authors address the relationship between cultural policy, work and identity by focusing on three levels of analysis. The first considers the state, the creativity of the power relationship established in cultural policies and the power which structures the symbolic order of cultural work. The second presents community in the cultural policy process, society and collective action, whether it is through the creation of institutions for arts and heritage profession or through resistance to state cultural policies. The third examines the experience of cultural policy by the professional. It illustrates how cultural policy is both a set of contingencies that shape possibilities for professionals, as much as it is a basis for identification and identity construction. The eleven authors in this unique book draw on their experience as artists and researchers from a range of countries, including France, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, and Sweden.

Author : Jean Helms Mills,Albert J. Mills,Robyn Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415655088

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Identity Politics at Work by Jean Helms Mills,Albert J. Mills,Robyn Thomas Pdf

Focusing on gender and ways of understanding resistance, this book attends to the current debate of compliance versus resistance, offering progressive understandings and highlighting strategies needed for organizational survival.

Author : Pia De Silvestris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000161014

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Difficult Identities by Pia De Silvestris Pdf

Every human being about to be born is loaned a provisional identity. This identity is embodied in the name they are given, as an invention, internal need, or generational obligation, parental fantasy or delusion. Both the person receiving and the person bestowing the name—and, with it, the provisional identity—are unaware of all this. Interweaving theoretical reflections and clinical histories, Pia De Silvestris illustrates the dramatic nature, the profundity, and the cryptic complexity of the challenges posed by this difficult identity—challenges she has faced repeatedly throughout her psychoanalytic career. She sees the role of transference in psychic and relational life as a "continuous search for the origin", a force that develops continuously through a variety of exchanges and investments, which seek, on the one hand, to weaken the bond to the original object and, on the other, to preserve it until death. Throughout the book’s chapters, we see how it is precisely the product of the transference experience that permits the joint work of identity construction to begin. Transference is always the outcome of an experience of fulfilment and an encounter with the other; and it is desire of the other that promotes the search for the self.

Author : Michael Tomlinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441174116

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Education, Work and Identity by Michael Tomlinson Pdf

Explores the interaction between education and work and the wider socio-economic context that shapes this.

Author : Susannah Ticciati
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567481030

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Job and the Disruption of Identity by Susannah Ticciati Pdf

Introduction Part I The Problem of Obedience: Barth on Job Chapter 1 Barth's Job as Both Right and Wrong Chapter 2 Obedience as Self-Examination: Barth on the Story of the Rich Man Part II Does Job Fear God for Naught? A Rereading of Job Chapter 3 The Prose Narrative: Transforming Piety Chapter 4 The Poem 4.1. The Dialogue: Testing Integrity 4.2. The Whirlwind Speeches: Encountering Creation Part III God, Job and Justice Chapter 5 Calling God to Account Chapter 6 An Integrity Beyond the Law Part IV The Disruption and Transformation of the Self Chapter 7 The Problem of Obedience Revisited Chapter 8 Epilogue: Self, Society and World Bibliography