Abstract
While the field of workplace identity studies is nascent and fragmented, it has matured in the sense that there are calls for the integration of divergent perspectives across the field and paradigmatic divides (Miscenko & Day, 2015; Sveningsson & Alvesson, 2003, Watson, 2008). Little attention has been paid to integrate intersectionality (Crensaw, 1991), a concept derived from critical feminist thought, into workplace identity research. Intersectionality is useful in conceptualizing work identity because it recognizes the simultaneity of the different social categories individuals belong to that inform their identities and also the ways they structure organizations and people’s experiences within them (Andersson, 2008; Roberts & Creary, 2013). Identity work is also relatively new in cross-cultural research, which tends to focus mainly on national culture or cross-cultural comparisons (Klarsfeld, Ng, Booysen, Christianson & Kuvaas, 2016). Consequently, the importance of super-group levels identity influences, such as national culture and societal contextual factors is also not sufficiently explored in workplace identity research.This workshop will extend our thinking on workplace identity by focusing on intersectionality to highlight the significance of an individual’s intersections of social locations in the workplace embedded in socio-historical and political contexts. Second, by focusing on the influence of national culture as a macro contextual factor, adding a cross-cultural leadership perspective on how individuals navigate their identities at work. We will explore: How does identity work intersect with cross-cultural research? How does identity work intersect with intersectionality? Can intersectionality be used to also unearth privilege and not only marginalization?
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Lize Annie Eliza BooysenProfessor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership, Graduate School of Leadership and Change, Antioch University, United States
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Identity, Construction, Intersectionality, Workplace, Leader, Cross-Cultural, Leadership, Identity, Complexity, Simultaneity
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