Organizational Psychology and the Tipping Point of Professional Identity1

Ann Marie Ryan and J. Kevin Ford

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2010, vol. 3, issue 3, 241-258

Abstract: Using concepts from the literature on individual and collective identity, we argue that organizational psychologists are at a tipping point with regard to identity. Assertions regarding a lack of distinctiveness from other fields, ambiguity in individual identification with the field among new entrants, hyperadaptation to external forces, and a failure to manage within-identity dynamics associated with science and practice are presented. These assertions are supported with descriptions of the nature of growth in the field, challenges in academic psychology departments, and calls for changing research agendas. With the aim of engaging others in collective sensemaking, alternative future scenarios for organizational psychology are presented.

Date: 2010
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