Welcome back to IHMA's Humanistic Management PhD Network. This year we are looking forward to supporting PhDs with even more mentoring, social support and research opportunities. We also have possibilities to connect researchers for publication work, and data gathering sites in companies and organizations connected to IHMA. Please feel free to join our monthly calls. The PhD Network webinar is held the first Monday of every month at 10:00 (Eastern time).
In our monthly gatherings the Humanistic Management Ph.D. network is featuring the work of selected Ph.D. students in the field to :
1) highlight their research topic
2) ask specific questions regarding their work for feedback
3) share and discuss concerns of members of the group via Zoom
This session will feature a presentation by Jordana Moser, a Ph.D. student at the WP Carey School, at Arizona State University. She will present a study that involves communication, non-bureaucratic organizations, face-to-face contact, and identity development in a lesbian discussion group.
Title: "I think we're alike in a certain way:" The relationship between organizing and personal identity development
Abstract:
The path of identity research has been well-tread by management scholars, with sizable literatures on organizational identities (e.g. Pratt, 2000), occupational/role-based identities (e.g. Ashcraft, 2005), professional identities (e.g. Pratt, Rockmann, and Kaufmann, 2006), relational identities (e.g. Sluss and Ashforth, 2007). Extant research has certainly acknowledged both the existence of personal/non-work identities (e.g. Ladge, Clair, and Greenberg, 2012; Ramarajan, 2013), as well as the complications faced when negotiating how and to what extent one can or should embody those identities in the workplace (e.g. Griffith and Hebl, 2002). However, what has yet to be explored is how our own conceptualizations of our personal identities can be shaped through organizations. Through 52 interviews with attendees of a long-running lesbian discussion group, I aim to demonstrate how the act of organizing can be crucial to the flourishing of individuals, both within and outside of the organizational context. Findings emphasize the importance of "saying" and "staging" rituals performed by "identity custodians" (Howard-Grenville, Metzger, and Meyer, 2013), as well as narrative sensemaking and space-giving practices.
Following the talk and audience discussion, we will hold a group discussion on career and professional development for doctoral students. This month's focus will be on "myths" associated with going on the job market. Oftentimes students try to fit themselves into a standardized career path that is perceived as "normal". During this discussion, we will dispel some of these myths.
Hosted by: David Wasieleski, Erica Steckler and Michael Pirson.
All interested students and scholars are welcome!
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The HM PhD Network is sponsored by the Institute for Ethics in Business at Duquesne University.
This monthly gathering is hosted by the International Humanistic Management Association in collaboration with the Academy of Management MSR Interest Group and Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division.