Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change
In the present study we investigated employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews with employees that will be affected by the change. We conducted a theory-driven thematic analysis based...
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| author | Ola Nordhall Julia Hörvallius Mathilda Nedelius Igor Knez |
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| description | In the present study we investigated employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews with employees that will be affected by the change. We conducted a theory-driven thematic analysis based on four predetermined main themes: personal and collective emotional, and cognitive work-identity. Respondents experienced distinct and unambiguous proudness, bonding, familiarity and missing in their personal emotional work-identity, and quite distinct and unambiguous coherence, reflection, mental time travel, but ambivalent, or even lack of, correspondence in their personal cognitive work-identity. They experienced a mix of distinct and ambiguous organizational proudness, esteem and affective commitment in their collective emotional work-identity. They experienced distinct and unambiguous identification with the organization, but ambivalent assimilation and incorporation of the organization in their collective cognitive work-identity. Such a complexity in the employees' work-identity experiences also indicates complexity in their organizational change reactions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-77d79af141174bdb96acd8fbb48827432025-08-20T02:57:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-03-011610.3389/fpsyg.2025.13822711382271Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational changeOla NordhallJulia HörvalliusMathilda NedeliusIgor KnezIn the present study we investigated employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews with employees that will be affected by the change. We conducted a theory-driven thematic analysis based on four predetermined main themes: personal and collective emotional, and cognitive work-identity. Respondents experienced distinct and unambiguous proudness, bonding, familiarity and missing in their personal emotional work-identity, and quite distinct and unambiguous coherence, reflection, mental time travel, but ambivalent, or even lack of, correspondence in their personal cognitive work-identity. They experienced a mix of distinct and ambiguous organizational proudness, esteem and affective commitment in their collective emotional work-identity. They experienced distinct and unambiguous identification with the organization, but ambivalent assimilation and incorporation of the organization in their collective cognitive work-identity. Such a complexity in the employees' work-identity experiences also indicates complexity in their organizational change reactions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1382271/fullpersonal and collective work-identityemotioncognitionorganizational changetheory-driven thematic analysis |
| spellingShingle | Ola Nordhall Julia Hörvallius Mathilda Nedelius Igor Knez Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change Frontiers in Psychology personal and collective work-identity emotion cognition organizational change theory-driven thematic analysis |
| title | Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change |
| title_full | Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change |
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| title_short | Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change |
| title_sort | employees experiences of personal and collective work identity in the context of an organizational change |
| topic | personal and collective work-identity emotion cognition organizational change theory-driven thematic analysis |
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