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Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts

2000; Academy of Management; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/259266

1930-3807

Michael A. Hogg, Deborah J. Terry,

Cultural Differences and Values

Although aspects of social identity theory are familiar to organizational psychologists, its elaboration, through self-categorization theory, of how social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization actually produce social identity effects is less well known. We describe these processes, relate self-categorization theory to social identity theory, describe new theoretical developments in detail, and show how these developments can address a range of organizational phenomena. We discuss cohesion and deviance, leadership, subgroup and sociodemographic structure, and mergers and acquisitions.