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Social Identity Theory

The document discusses Social Identity Theory (SIT) and its application within organizational contexts, focusing on organizational identification, social identification, and group dynamics. It explores the antecedents and consequences of social identification, including its impact on organizational socialization, role conflict, and intergroup relations. The implications for research highlight the importance of understanding the discriminability of identification and its effects on organizational behavior.

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Social Identity Theory

The document discusses Social Identity Theory (SIT) and its application within organizational contexts, focusing on organizational identification, social identification, and group dynamics. It explores the antecedents and consequences of social identification, including its impact on organizational socialization, role conflict, and intergroup relations. The implications for research highlight the importance of understanding the discriminability of identification and its effects on organizational behavior.

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Social Identity Theory

&
the Organization
Blake E Ashforth & Fred Mael
Overview
• Organizational identification  Social Identity Theory
• Social Identification and Group Identification
• Social Identification and the Organization
• Antecedents & Consequences
• Applying Social Identity Theory to Organizations
Organizational Socialization
Role Conflict
Intergroup relations
• Implications for research
Social Identity Theory
Social Identity Theory
Classification into various social categories

Locate or
Cognitive
Define or
segmentation
Identify
Social Identification and Group Identification

Personally
experiencing
the success &
failures

Is
Perceptual Social / distinguishable
cognitive Group
Identification from
construct
internalization

Similar to
identification
with a person
Social Identification and the
Organization
Notion of
single or Organizational
blended commitment
organizational & OI
identification

Why
individuals
identify with
social
categories?

Subunit specific OI as shared


identities identity
Antecedents of Social
Identification in Organization

Group
Salience of
Categorization Distinctiveness Prestige formation
outgroups
factors
Consequences of Social
Identification in Organization
Choosing &
supporting

Reinforcing
the Affinity *
antecedents

Depersonalization Internalization

Self-
stereotyping
Application of SIT to
Organizational Socialization

Situational Developing
Symbolic
definition & self social
interactions
definition identification
Application of SIT to Role
Conflict
• Amalgam of loosely coupled identities
• Ill conceived notion that self concept as a unified concept
• Failure to integrate during compartmentalization, suggests likelihood
of double standards & hypocrisy.
Application of SIT to Intergroup
relations

Effects of biased intergroup comparisons

Qualifications of intergroup comparisons


Implications for Research
• Discriminability of identification
• Antecedents & consequences
• Applications of SIT to organizational behaviour

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