Letting Go and Moving On: Work-Related Identity Loss and Recovery

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Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires (2015, background): “…painful and confusing, can simultaneously contain the opportunity for people to reorganize their experiences and emerge with a stronger sense of professional identity, by incorporating their own resourcefulness into the new working context (see also Conroy and O’Leary-Kelly, 2014; Maitlis, 2009).”
“I Identify with Her,” “I Identify with Him”: Unpacking the Dynamics of Personal Identification in Organizations (2016, background): “…a given target entails identity narratives—stories of varying levels of complexity that individuals craft from the oftenmessyandequivocal vicissitudes that typify careers and organizational life (e.g., Ashforth, Harrison, & Sluss, 2014; Conroy & O’Leary-Kelly, 2014; Ibarra & Barbulescu, 2010).”
The Meaning of My Feelings Depends on Who I Am: Work-Related Identifications Shape Emotion Effects in Organizations (2017, background): “Leaving the organization for those highly identified is likely to lead to a strong sense of loss (Conroy & O'Leary-Kelly, 2014) as the individual’s work-related identity features a specific, nontransferrable component which is tied to an organization.”