Identity-Implicating Experiences: When Employees’ Social Identities Awaken and Influence Their Work

This symposium showcases four papers that draw on a diverse array of methods to investigate various circumstances in which a person’s social identities (organizational, professional, occupational, and gender) are made salient and influence their experiences of work. Through these papers, we shed light on both identity-specific outcomes (e.g., changes in identification levels, feelings of identity threat and affirmation) and non-identity-specific outcomes (e.g., employee work contributions) that can stem from these experiences. Taken together, our four papers and discussion strive to enrich and generate future research on identity-implicating experiences, as well as deliver actionable insights for managers. Even After Its Gone: A Latent Profile Analysis of Organizational Identification Change Strategies Presenter: Tiffany Trzebiatowski; Colorado State U. Presenter: Samantha A. Conroy; Colorado State U. Presenter: William J. Becker; Virginia Tech Broadening Expertise: How Professionals Integrate Prosocial and Professional Identity to Serve Low-Status Clients Presenter: Lakshmi Ramarajan; Harvard U. Presenter: Julie Yen; Harvard Business School The Deeper the Hate, the Deeper the Love: The Effects of Expressed Occupationalism on Employees Presenter: Pascale Fricke; U. of British Columbia Presenter: Danielle Van Jaarsveld; U. of British Columbia Presenter: Lingtao Yu; U. of British Columbia Presenter: David Douglas Walker; U. of British Columbia An Examination of How Gender Identity Diversity Influences Boundary Spanning and Team Performance Presenter: Phoenix Van Wagoner; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Presenter: Sabrina DeeAnn Volpone; U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: Elizabeth Embry; U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: David R. Hekman; U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: Liza Yasemin Barnes; U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: Rick Reed; PhD Student at U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: Jessica Mariah Rivin; U. of Colorado, Boulder Presenter: Stefanie Johnson; U. of Colorado, Boulder