Relating Physical Environment to Self-Categorizations: Identity Threat and Affirmation in a Non-Territorial Office Space

By Kimberly D. Elsbach. 2003

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

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Identity Negotiation at Work (2009, background): “Most important, people use explicit and subtle statements as well as nonverbal behaviors and cues to communicate their identities (Elsbach, 2003; Goffman, 1963; Swann & Read, 1981; Swann, Stein-Seroussi, & McNulty, 1992).”
Identity and identification at work (2016, background): “Ethnographic research among restaurant cooks demonstrated that workers rely on varied occupational rhetoric to define their work and identity, therefore occupational identity was socially, temporally, and spatially situated, rather than stable across individuals and situations (Fine, 1996). Similar ”
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).”
“My space”: A moderated mediation model of the effect of architectural and experienced privacy and workspace personalization on emotional exhaustion at work (2013, background): “, 2005) and in expressing individuals’ identity to others (Elsbach, 2003; Sundstrom & Sundstrom, 1986).”
Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach (2014, background): “Identity construction has become an important area of focus in organizational studies, sometimes blended with other perspectives (Anteby, 2008; Ashforth & Kreiner, 1999; Beyer & Hannah, 2002; DeRue, Ashford, & Cotton, 2009; Elsbach, 2003; Gutierrez, Howard-Grenville, & Scully, 2010; Lok, 2010; Pratt”
When Job Performance is All Relative: How Family Motivation Energizes Effort and Compensates for Intrinsic Motivation (2017, background): “Employees often post family photographs in their workspaces, which provide them with salient reminders of why they are working (Elsbach, 2003; George & Brief, 1996).”
A review and agenda for examining how technology-driven changes at work will impact workplace mental health and employee well-being (2020, background): “This is consistent with evidence that greater levels of control over where, when and how employees complete their tasks can enhance their feelings of autonomy (Elsbach, 2003; Hackman and Oldham, 1976; Standen, 2000), which has been linked to higher levels of psychological well-being (Park and Searcy”
Moral Symbols: A Necklace of Garlic against Unethical Requests (2017, background): “In the workplace, people make inferences about their coworkers, subordinates, and bosses, based on cues such as how the office is laid out, how personalized the space is, how cluttered the desk is, what their signature looks like, and so forth (Elsbach, 2003, 2004; Elsbach & Pratt, 2007).”
Your Place or Mine? Organizational Identification and Comfort as Mediators of Relationships Between the Managerial Control of Workspace and Employees' Satisfaction and Well-being (2010, background): “Management policy thus dictates, inter alia, whether workers are allowed to have photographs or plants at their workstations and whether they are allowed to readjust office temperature (Crompton and Jones, 1984, Elsbach, 2003; Pruijt, 2003).”