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This fifth volume of "Research on Managing Groups and Teams" focuses on the relationship between identity issues and individual and group functioning. It looks at a range of phenomena involving the individual identities people bring to the groups they join and collective identities.
List of contents
When differences do (and do not) make a difference - how individual identities influence reactions to diversity, S.E. Spataro; splintered identity and organizational change - the predicament of boundary-spanning managers, B.M. Wiesenfeld, P.F. Hewlin; subjective identities and identity communication processes in information technology teams, S.M.B. Thatcher, et al; the benefits of verifying diverse identities for group performance, J.T. Polzer et al; the social structure of diverse groups - integrating social categorizations and nerwork perspecives, P. Pradhan Shah, K.T. Dirks; "What's the norm here?" social categorizations as a basis for group norm development, F.J. Flynn, J.A. Chatman; disentangling collective identities, M.G. Pratt; the dark side of identification - overcoming identification-induced performance impediments, A.A. Michel, K.E. Jehn; the reappropriation of stigmatizing labels - implication for social identity, A.D. Galinsky, et al; intergenerational identification and co-operation in organizations and society, K.A. Wade-Benzoni; social identity and self-categorization theories' contribution to understanding identification, salience and diversity in teams and organizations, K.J. Reynolds, et al.
Summary
This fifth volume of "Research on Managing Groups and Teams" focuses on the relationship between identity issues and individual and group functioning. It looks at a range of phenomena involving the individual identities people bring to the groups they join and collective identities.
