Applying models of employee identity management across cultures: Christianity in the USA and South Korea |
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| Authors: | Brent Lyons Jennifer Wessel Sonia Ghumman Ann Marie Ryan Sooyeol Kim |
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| Institution: | 1. Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, , Vancouver, BC, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, The University of Akron, , Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.;3. Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, , Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.;4. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, , East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.;5. Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, , Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Identity management refers to the decisions individuals make about how they present their social identities to others. We examined cross‐cultural differences in distancing and affirming identity management strategies of Christian‐identified employees utilizing samples from the USA and South Korea. Religious centrality, risks of disclosure, pressure to assimilate to organizational norms, and nation were key antecedents of chosen identity management strategies. Risks of disclosure and pressure to assimilate related to more distancing and less affirming strategies when religious centrality was low, but nation served as a boundary condition for the moderating effects of religious centrality. Distancing strategies related to negative outcomes regardless of religious centrality, but affirming strategies only related to positive outcomes when religious centrality was low. We discuss how this work contributes to theoretical and practical understanding of identity management in the workplace and across cultures. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | social identity identity management religion cross‐cultural |
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