The Self Not Taken: How Alternative Selves Develop and How They Influence Our Professional Lives

By Otilia Obodaru. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach (2014, background): “Some current illustrations in organizational studies of identities being constructed or related across time include exploration of alternative selves (Obodaru, 2012), the construction of identities over the life course (Moen, 2003; Wittman, 2014), and recent work on socialization (Ashforth et al.”
Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires (2015, background): “In their work context, people face myriad occupational choices and countless options for professional career development (Obodaru, 2012).”
Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities (2015, background): “As people form their identities in relation to their past, future, alternative, and possible selves (Ibarra 1999, Markus and Nurius 1986, Obodaru 2012), their statements about their experienced identities may include allusions to these other selves.”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, unknown): “Obodaru (2012) shows how individuals can compare their current state with imagined alternative selves.”
Identity Under Construction: How Individuals Come to Define Themselves in Organizations (2016, unknown): “2010), and alternative self (Obodaru 2012)].”
Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward (2018, background): “Obodaru (2012) suggested that people often have alternative selves—or ideas about the person one could have been had circumstances been different—that influence affect, cognition, and motivation.”
From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities (2018, background): “To fit the prominent, accepted narrative of a single focused career, people often forgo one vocational passion, sometimes even one perceived as a ‘‘calling,’’ to focus on another (Berg, Grant, and Johnson, 2010; Obodaru, 2012, 2017).”