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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Identity work"”.
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Moral Identity Work in Senior Business Managers
… analysis research method to explore the moral identity work of senior managers in UK for-profit businesses. Analysis of thirty semi-structured interview transcripts was carried out using the Nvivo data analysis software package, guided by Gioia et al’s (2013) systematic approach to qualitative …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… the effects of online marketing practices on the identity construction of individual marketers, referred to as the Digital Organisational Storyteller (DOS), across five business-to-business (B2B) organisations. I focus on illuminating their marketing processes and self-understanding when …
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Coaching support for leader/ship identity work among senior leaders: expert coaches' perspectives
… how executive coaches support Leader/ship identity work among senior leaders. Using a Narrative Inquiry methodology, the study analyses 34 semi-structured narrative interviews with international expert coaches, offering insights into coaching practices and contributing to four key areas: …
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EX-GAY MOVEMENT NARRATIVES AND THE IDENTITY WORK OF ACTIVE, FORMER AND MARGINALIZED PARTICIPANTS
… present and future. To gain insight into the identity work of people involved in the movement, those who have left and those who exist on the margins, I engaged in collected 31 semi-structured interviews, engaged in participant observation of an ex-gay conference and conducted a narrative …
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Identity, work, and mobility amongst Bolivian market vendors in El Alto and São Paulo
… through commerce, to the extent that the chola identity has been conflated with that of market vendors, as a racially ambiguous, socially mobile woman. Market women in São Paulo do not wear a pollera, but they too rely on ambiguous use of categories to highlight their processes of mobility. As …
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How members of high identity demand organizations perform identity work relating to organization membership
This study asks: how do members of high identity demand organizations perform identity work relating to their organization membership? Using social identity theory, Kreiner, Hollensbe and Sheep (2006a) defined high identity demand vocations as imposing significant forces on members towards …
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An exploration of women’s identity work in career choices and transitions : implications for executive coaching
… been established that career transitions involve identity and identity work, and can be challenging. The process of identity work in career transitions can be particularly complex for women, due to sex and gender. Yet this topic is rarely included in coaching education, and coaches are often …
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Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An exploration of diagnosis, identity-work, and performance of illness.
… diagnosis informs their self-understanding and identity, including in a treatment context, and how they manage and perform the diagnosis, both within and outside treatment. I used two qualitative methods; autoethnography and interviews. The former was a ‘moderate’ autoethnography. Drawing on …
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Identity Work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Reddit: Traversals of Deliberation, Moderation, and Decolonization
… how AAPIs construct and express their identity in online communities within Reddit.</p> <p>The first study examines how users engage in an online community through a deliberation lens to understand the extent to which Reddit supports identity work as a deliberative process. Through a …
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"Do You Want Excitement? Don't Join the Army, Be a Nurse!": Identity Work and Advantage among Men in Training for the Female Professions
This study examines the identity work strategies that men students in nursing, elementary education, and social work programs employ in order to manage and assert their masculinity in the face of negative gender assessment, as well as the identity work involved in verifying their professional …
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“Because I did what she told me to do.” Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom and how a Teacher’s Positionality Impacts Student Learning
… a person of color, and a scientist—their identity work) within the bounds of their classroom and community. In addition, the teacher’s positionality and the curriculum materials were studied to understand how they tended to students’ identities. Employing critical ethnographic methodology, …
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Triple Outsiders: Gender and Ethnic Identity Among Asian Indian Immigrants
This study uses literature on identity work to examine the gender similarities and differences in the ethnic identity work that Asian Indian immigrants to the United States do. It also looks at the changes Indian immigrants' understanding of themselves as Indian men/women due to migration. …
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The Employment of Ex-Military As Teachers: The Military, Masculinity and Moral Regulation
… of ex-military as teachers from a perspective of identity and culture. Using a single case study approach, including focus groups, interviews and observations, the research has explored a military academy within 'College', a further education institute in the south of England. Focusing …
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Making A Comeback: An Exploration of Nontraditional Students & Identity Support
… qualitative study is to explore the effects of identity supportive messages on nontraditional students in terms of facilitating identification with the student role. Identity support involves the extent to which an individual believes that others understand, accept, and/or provide instrumental …
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Making A Comeback: An Exploration of Nontraditional Students & Identity Support
… qualitative study is to explore the effects of identity supportive messages on nontraditional students in terms of facilitating identification with the student role. Identity support involves the extent to which an individual believes that others understand, accept, and/or provide instrumental …
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The Incredibles: Investigating what it is like to be a portfolio worker
… insights into the experiences of portfolio workers and contributes to the growing body of work on non-standard working arrangements. The empirical material was gathered from 36 semi-structured interviews, a focus group and a lived experience diary. The research was carried out by a portfolio …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
This thesis examines identity work in the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It takes as its object of study a corpus of songs about the conflict representative of the key political and military actors involved: Ukraine, Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s …
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Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
This work addresses the phenomenon of long-term, so-called ‘independent’ travelling, or backpacking, often to destinations described as the ‘third world’. It regards backpacker journeys as arenas for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. Rather than merely being a …
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An exploration of grounded theory with reference to self and identity of part-time, mature learners in higher education
… Education programme in relation to ‘self’ and ‘identity’. Data from thirteen in-depth interviews are analysed, enabling the construction of a data-driven ‘Grounded Theorisation’. Commensurate with the methodology, no extant theoretical framework is applied to this analysis. The findings from the …
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Tattoos and the interaction process: managing a tattooed identity
… individuals manage and negotiate their tattooed identity in relation to audience perceptions and expectations. It is argued that through utilizing various forms of identity work and impression management techniques, an individual's tattooed identity is activated or deactivated dependent upon the …
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