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Employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational Health, Psychology and Sports Sciences, Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8707-1386
University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational Health, Psychology and Sports Sciences, Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1386-5260
2025 (English)In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 16, article id 1382271Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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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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Frontiers , 2025. Vol. 16, article id 1382271
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cognition; emotion; organizational change; personal and collective work-identity; theory-driven thematic analysis
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-46704DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1382271ISI: 001453958700001PubMedID: 40151413Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105001142319OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-46704DiVA, id: diva2:1948838
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