Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work

By David L. Collinson. 2003

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Rethinking followership: a post-structuralist analysis of follower identities (2006, background): “In an earlier article, I highlighted the neglected importance of insecurity for understanding identity constructions, particularly in Western societies (Collinson, 2003).”
Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity (2009, background): “Identity, it would seem, oscillates between ontological security and the insecurities of multiple, fragmented selves (Collinson, 2003) in a”
Dichotomies, dialectics and dilemmas: New directions for critical leadership studies? (2014, background): “Third, CLS examine how leadership/followership dynamics are frequently reproduced through identity security-seeking strategies (Collinson, 2003, 2006) that can have paradoxical outcomes (e.g. intensifying the insecurity that identity strategies were designed to overcome).”
It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work (2014, background): “…research, for “studies of subjectivity have sometimes neglected the extent to which human self-consciousness may be the medium and outcome of uncertainties, insecurities, and anxieties about who we are” (Collinson, 2003, p. 529), which also provokes further concerns about who we could be—“if only”.”
Locking Up Emotion: Moving Beyond Dissonance for Understanding Emotion Labor Discomfort (2005, background): “Of course, employees did not always aim for the stereotypical tough, male, threatening persona; ‘‘masculinities are by no means homogenous, unified or fixed categories but diverse, differentiated and shifting across time, space and culture’’ (Connell, 1995; cf., Collinson, 2003, p. 534).”
Men at Work and at Home: Managing Emotion in Telework (2007, background): “From this view, Collinson (2003) explores the insecurities and ambiguities of producing workplace ‘selves’, arguing that conformist, dramaturgical and resistant survival practices are common.”
Orientations to Social Constructionism: Relationally Responsive Social Constructionism and its Implications for Knowledge and Learning (2008, background): “…ethnomethodology (Samra-Fredericks, 2004), discursive approaches (Boje, 1991), critically based work (Deetz, 1998), poststructuralist-infl uenced work (Ashcraft and Mumby, 2004; Collinson, 2003) and relationally oriented work (Cunliffe, 2002b; Hosking and McNamee, 2006; Shotter and Cunliffe, 2002).”
Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review ☆ (2017, background): “…2003, p. 1163), leading to the accumulation of a significant amount of novel theoretical and empirical work on the topic (e.g., Alvesson, Ashcraft, & Thomas, 2008; Ashforth, Rogers, & Corley, 2011; Ashforth & Schinoff, 2016; Collinson, 2003; Fiol, Pratt, & O'Connor, 2009; Petriglieri, 2011).”
Identity, mental health and work: How employees with mental health conditions recount stigma and the pejorative discourse of mental illness (2018, background): “…demonstrated the fluid, insecure, unstable, fragile, and even anxious (Knights and Clarke, 2014) or contradictory nature of identity construction (Collinson, 2003), this study similarly emphasizes the multiplicities and nuances of the strategies through which individuals procure a greater…”
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.”
In search of the perfect manager? Work-life balance and managerial work (2011, background): “While workers themselves may also compartmentalize their ‘public’ and ‘private’ lives in order to construct a sense of control outside employment (Collinson, 2003), findings in this article reveal that such boundaries can be exaggerated.”
Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward (2018, background): “…by hegemonic discourses (Gagnon, 2008; Gill, 2015; Tracy, 2004), through identity work, they can also question, co-opt, or reject these discourses in favor of other valued identities (Doolin, 2002; Humphreys & Brown, 2002b), although they often do so in subtle, covert ways (see Collinson, 2003).”
Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities (2015, background): “…incumbents’ identities (Barbulescu and Bidwell 2013), many workers are ambivalent about the identities their organization expects them to take on (Collinson 2003, Gagnon and Collinson 2014, Ramarajan and Reid 2013), suggesting that conflict between expected and experienced identities may be…”
Cracking Jokes and Crafting Selves: Sensemaking and Identity Management Among Human Service Workers (2006, background): “One of the primary ways people define themselves is through their jobs (Collinson, 2003; Tracy & Trethewey, 2005).”
Ambivalence and Resistance: A Study of Management in a Concertive Control System (2005, background): “As Collinson (2003) puts it, “There appears to be an almost unlimited number of possible sources of identity . . .”
Dialectics of leadership (2005, background): “Challenging conventional notions of identity as a fixed and objective essence, post-structuralists also contend that selves are multiple, open, negotiable, shifting, ambiguous, insecure and potentially contradictory (Collinson, 2003).”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, unknown): “Such behaviors can be viewed as a survival strategy in the face of the perception of a threat to their job and career security, but also potentially to their image and their sense of self (Collinson, 2003).”