Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual

By Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Cracking Jokes and Crafting Selves: Sensemaking and Identity Management Among Human Service Workers (2006, background): “…communication scholarship, in particular, has demonstrated the ways that discourses serve to not only reflect occupational preferences but constitute workers’ very selves (see, for example, Alvesson & Willmott, 2002; Ashcraft & Mumby, 2004; Deetz, 1992; Knights & Willmott, 1999; Trethewey, 1997).”
Growing Followers: Exploring the Effects of Leader Humility on Follower Self‐Expansion, Self‐Efficacy, and Performance (2018, neutral): “…leadership areas been overwhelmingly leader-centric (Ehrhart and Klein, 2001; Meindl, 1995), but the way in which followers view and define themselves is the psychological foundation that shapes their subsequent attitudes and behaviors (Alvesson and Willmott, 2002; Van Knippenberg et al., 2004).”
Body Possibilities in Leadership (2005, background): “To draw on poststructural ideas which recognize the ways individuals self-discipline in identity regulation (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002; Collinson, 2003), these leaders occupied spaces between highly regulated systems.”
Considering context in discursive leadership research (2009, background): “‘Managerialism’ came to represent this oppressive form of power as researchers looked for the ways in which one or more ideologies mediated discourse and social structures or hegemonically manufactured the consent of the willing (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002; Barker, 1993; Deetz, 1992; Kunda, 1992).”
Probing Precarious Work: Theory, Research, and Politics (2017, background): “The clearest example is that of writers who view precarity as immobilizing workers (as Bourdieu contends) or as engulfing them in entrepreneurial norms that reconfigure workers’ very identities (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002; du Gay, 1996).”
Identity, mental health and work: How employees with mental health conditions recount stigma and the pejorative discourse of mental illness (2018, background): “…intersection of multiple constraints of discursive regulation, this critical identity approach problematizes current doxa on power and mental health by showing the power relations between individuals’ own understanding of the self, discourse and subject positions (e.g. Alvesson and Willmott, 2002).”
From Outward Bound to Inward Bound’: the Prophetic Voices and Discursive Practices of Spiritual Management Development (2004, background): “It thus reinforces the current organizational preoccupation with managing identity rather than relying on external, bureaucratic sources of influence and control (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002).”
Service employees and self-verification: The roles of occupational stigma consciousness and core self-evaluations (2014, background): “Much of this work has assumed that people satisfy their need for self-knowledge and self-continuity by searching for congruence in how they view themselves at work (Alvesson and Willmott, 2002).”
Leadership as Practice: Challenging the Competency Paradigm (2008, background): “…led them to conclude that leadership has more power as a discourse and identity, giving practitioners enhanced selfesteem, significance and ‘positive cultural valence’ (Alvesson & Willmott, 2002: 620), rather than a specific or distinctive set of practices or interventions in organizational life.”