Individual-level foci of identification at work: A systematic review of the literature
By Doyin Atewologun, Roxanne Kutzer, Elena Doldor, Deirdre Anderson, R. Sealy. 2017
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This paper presents a systematic literature review of individual-level targets (or foci) of identification, that is, the bases by which one derives a sense of self as a unique being in the context of work. We reviewed 253 articles from over 30 top management journals between 2005 and 2016. In examining foci types, definitions, underpinning theoretical and philosophical assumptions, we catalogue nine categories of individual-level identification foci (manager, leader, follower, team, organization, occupation-specific, professional, career and work), finding a dominance of functionalist meta-theoretical orientations (comprising over half the sample, with interpretivist approaches comprising about a third of studies). Further, we enhance construct clarity in the field; we identify conceptual challenges with extant definitions of key foci, and offer integrative definitions by specifying scope conditions for each identity focus and semantic relationships between various identity foci. We contextualize our discussion of construct clarity to different research orientations in the field and offer possibilities for theoretical developments therein. Third, we offer an integrative framework for positioning work in the field by scope of interest (identity content or context) and identity construction assumptions (stable or evolving), suggesting directions for future research.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- #Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “Based on a systematic literature review, Atewologun et al. (2017) recently proposed an integrative framework for analyzing identity in a 2× 2 matrix featuring the dimensions of stable vs evolving and content vs context.”
- Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews of Management Research (2021, unknown): “For instance, for topics at the intersection of management and psychology, the review articles I analyzed often drew on PsycINFO in addition to other multipublisher databases (e.g., Anseel et al., 2007; Atewologun et al., 2017; Xiao & Nicholson, 2013).”
- A systematic literature review on the impact of artificial intelligence on workplace outcomes: A multi-process perspective (2021, unknown): “To achieve this, we followed examples of existing state-of-the-art systematic reviews (e.g., Atewologun, Kutzer, Doldor, Anderson, & Sealy, 2017; Franco-Santos & Otley, 2018), thereby limiting our review to studies in peer-reviewed journals ranked 3, 4 or 4* in the AJG (formerly ABS) 2018 journals.”