{"product_id":"exploring-positive-identities-and-organizations-laura-morgan-roberts-9781841697642","title":"Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics and new theoretical approaches to identity through the specific focus on positive identities of individuals, groups, organizations and communities. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars. In chapters that build theoretical and empirical bridges between identity and growth, authenticity, relationships, hope, sustainability, leadership, resilience, cooperation, and community reputation and other important variables, the authors jumpstart an exciting domain of research on new ways that work organizations are sites of and contributors to identities that are beneficial or valuable to individuals or collectives. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume invites readers to consider, \"When and how does applying a positive lens to the construct of identity generate new insights for organizational researchers?\" A unique feature of this volume is that it brings together explorations of identity from multiple levels of analysis: individual, dyadic, group, organization and community. Commentary chapters integrate the chapters within each level of analysis, illuminate core themes and unearth new questions. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume is designed to accomplish three objectives: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo establish Positive Identities and Organizations as an interdisciplinary, multi-level domain of inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo integrate a focus on Positive Identity with existing theory and research on identity and organizations \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTo map out a vibrant new research territory in organizational studies .\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume will appeal to an international community of scholars in Management, Psychology, and Sociology, as well as practitioners who seek to generate positive identity-related dynamics, states and outcomes in work organizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Morgan Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1841697648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781841697642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Laura Morgan Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088859050239,"sku":"9781841697642","price":74.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cad7376-a5c6-46a9-9175-4f03f5d47ffe.jpg?v=1769106935","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exploring-positive-identities-and-organizations-laura-morgan-roberts-9781841697642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}