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| Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
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Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between Non-Work and Work Identities
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Nancy Rothbard and Lakshmi Ramarajan
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Abstract
In this chapter we examine factors that enable individuals to experience compatibility between their work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We argue that factors such as status and respect allow for greater control over whether and when identities are co-activated. We also argue that compatibility arises from cognitive routines which emerge from active and passive adaptation to situations in which co-activation of identities occurs frequently.
Keywords: Personal Development and Career;
Identity;
Adaptation;