Under Threat: Responses to and the Consequences of Threats to Individuals' Identities

By J. Petriglieri. 2011

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Identity and Well-Being in Sensemaking About Retention and Turnover (2017, background): “Identity threat has been shown to negatively affect performance, leadership, and change (Petriglieri, 2011), and our data suggest it also contributes to turnover.”
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires (2015, background): “While these attempts may help to smooth over a transition process, they are also likely to remove all possibility for new cycles of growth (Petriglieri, 2011).”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “Situations that make an outgroup salient or contain threats to one’s identity also heighten adherence to ingroup norms (Elsbach, 2003; Petriglieri, 2011).”
The Pivot: How Founders Respond to Feedback through Idea and Identity Work (2017, background): “When specific occupational demands or social conditions violate or threaten individuals’ identities within the context of their labor (Petriglieri, 2011), this is presumed to trigger a process of identity work, allowing individuals to “come to terms with” those violations, often by way of small adju”
Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “Petriglieri (2011) highlights different kinds of sensemaking triggered by an identity threat, arguing that when the identity is newly acquired (for example, when embarking on a new profession), individuals are prompted to change the meaning of the new identity.”
Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward (2018, background): “Identity work can also help individuals reduce perceived identity threat (Petriglieri, 2011).”
Understanding individual compassion in organizations: the role of appraisals and psychological flexibility (2011, positive): “To the extent that a manager identifies with a particular self-categorization, or with achieving a particular goal, any threat to that categorization or goal will be experienced as a threat to self (Petriglieri, 2011).”