The use of team has expanded dramatically in response to competitive challenges. In addition, academics have increasingly selected teams and team effectiveness as important areas for research in response to the increased use of teams in organizations (Cohen & Bailey, 1997). The influence of group was has manifested itself in many ways (Gusso & Dickson, 1996). Meanwhile, Moreover, a recent finding suggests that while cultural factors are important in the economic growth in the Far East (Hall & Xu, 1990), especially in organizations. Hofstede (1980) pointed out the difference of values between Chinese and American is obvious. Thus, most theories chiefly have been limited to the United States, where the vast majority of such studies were conducted (Erez & Earley, 1993). However, the process of globalization has created opportunities for transferring managerial techniques across cultures, and such attempts have not always been successful (Adler, 1986; England, 1983; Hofstede, 1980; Jaeger, 1983). Failures in transferring methods of human resource management across cultures suggest that culture acts as a moderator in the relationship between managerial techniques and employee behavior (Erez & Earley, 1993). The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of team members¡¦ identification in top management team that expose Chinese culture of ¡§quanxi¡¨ on team performance. The work took an innovative perspective to investigate the invisibly managerial role in Chinese team. In order to develop the initial exploratory surveys, the work will integrate Chinese cultural influence within current work on teamwork of role identity theory, social identity theory, leadership and commitment in whole discussion. On the basis of the study findings are congruent with role identity theory, and Chinese culture of ¡§quanxi¡¨ affects on team members¡¦ identity and commitment in Taiwanese top management team remarkably. In addition, perceived the leader¡¦s expertise and interpersonal competency shows positive attitudes toward team members in terms of contribution to their commitment on team. The significant results propose the informal team exists in team leader¡¦s recognition that is hided in formal team in organizational structure. At the same time, formal team members possess commitment on informal team unconscious. That is, the six propositions are built in such a way. Proposition 1: The past existence of social ¡§quanxi¡¨ in Chinese culture among team members influences their role identities and behaviors respond to other members in Taiwanese top management team. Proposition 2: The past existence of social ¡§quanxi¡¨ in Chinese culture contributes to the positive strength of team member¡¦s commitment on team in Taiwanese top management team. Proposition 3: The past existence of social ¡§quanxi¡¨ in Chinese culture may inspire team member¡¦s commitment on other members¡¦ expectations in Taiwanese top management team. Proposition 4: Team members perceived leader¡¦s behavior and leadership may affect the relationship between team member¡¦s identity and team member¡¦s team commitment in Taiwanese top management team. Proposition 5: The existence of informal team is hided in the formal team in organizational structure in Taiwanese top management team. Proposition 6: The members in formal team commit on informal team unconsciously in Taiwanese top management team.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Teaching and Learning)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2004. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to understand how context may shapemultiple goal negotiation. Prior research has focused on identifying variables that influence goal pursuit in general, but little attention has been given to how these principles operate in different circumstances. This study adopted the Dynamic Systems Model of Role- Identity and studied context through an identity lens. The context of the L2 teacher was selected as the focus of investigation, specifically the L2 teacher’s pursuit of speaking in the second language for 90% of instructional time while forming meaningful relationships with students. Fifty six L2 teachers participated. The study was carried out over five phases. In the first phase, data were collected in an online survey targeting teachers’ contextual variables, goal commitment, goal expectancy, self-accordance, job satisfaction, and perception of goal conflict. In the second phase, teachers were divided into groups based on their perception of conflict between the two goals: misaligned, no effect, and aligned. Chi-square analysis and Fischer exact tests were conducted and the only significant difference between groups was the amount of L2 spoken. A MANOVA, followed by univariate analysis found that the groups differed significantly regarding their level of commitment to the L2 goal, and their goal expectancy for forming relationships. In the third phase, a content analysis of the open-ended responses found that context influenced the goal navigation process, that the most frequent approach to resolving conflict was abandoning the L2 goal, that multifinality is contingent on one’s role-identity, and that tension may be conscious or unconscious. In the fourth phase, 14 L2 teachers completed semi-structured interviews, which were used to further explore how role-identity informs goal navigation. Analysis of the transcripts revealed that role- identity has a powerful influence on how teachers manage and construal their goals. In the fifth and final phase, all the data were synthesized, resulting in the implications for researchers, administrators, and teachers. / Educational Psychology

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The peculiarities of Lithuanian doctoral students’ professional identity and its multiplicity are analyzed. It is presumed that psychological, social and academic environmental factors may explain the doctoral students’ professional identity expression, which is observed through the professional roles: researcher-scientist, teacher and public service provider/practitioner. The theoretical part presents the problems of terminology regarding identity phenomenon, a disquisition of the professional identity concept by integrating identity and social identity theories, the peculiarities of the doctoral student’s professional identity formation within the career construction theory perspective, analysis of the factors that possibly explain doctoral student’s professional identity expression in the context of the systems theory, and finally, a theoretical model of the study is constructed. The empirical part covers the results of the study implemented in 2013. The sample consisted of 494 doctoral students from 22 higher education institutions in Lithuania. The results indicated that particular personality traits and thinking styles, subjectively perceived social support from various sources (scientific supervisor, colleagues and other students, employer, family and friends), as well as academic environmental factors (working conditions and scientific field) are significant for doctoral students’ identification with different professional roles. Modeling the interaction of factors... [to full text] / Daktaro disertacijoje analizuojama Lietuvos doktorantų profesinio identiteto daugialypiškumo problematika. Darbe keliama prielaida, kad psichologiniai, socialiniai ir akademinės aplinkos veiksniai gali paaiškinti doktorantų profesinio identiteto raišką, kurią stebime per atliekamus profesinius vaidmenis: tyrėjo-mokslininko, dėstytojo ir visuomeninių paslaugų teikėjo/praktiko. Disertacijos teorinėje dalyje pristatoma identiteto reiškinio terminijos problematika, profesinio identiteto sampratos aiškinimas integruojant identiteto ir socialinio identiteto teorijas, doktoranto profesinio identiteto formavimosi ypatumai per karjeros konstravimo teorijos prizmę, doktoranto profesinį identitetą lemiančių veiksnių analizė sistemų teorijos kontekste, pateikiamas teorinis tyrimo modelis. Empirinėje darbo dalyje pristatomi 2013 m. atliktos Lietuvos doktorantų apklausos rezultatai. Tyrimo imtis – 494 doktorantai iš 22 aukštojo mokslo institucijų Lietuvoje. Tyrimo rezultatų analizė atskleidė, kad tam tikri doktorantų asmenybės bruožai bei mąstymo stiliai, subjektyviai suvokiamas palaikymas iš skirtingų socialinių šaltinių (mokslinio vadovo, kolegų ir kitų studentų, šeimos ir draugų, darbdavio) bei akademinės aplinkos veiksniai (darbo sąlygos bei mokslo sritis) turi reikšmę doktorantų identifikacijai su skirtingais profesiniais vaidmenimis. Kompleksinis veiksnių sąveikos įvertinimas atskleidė, kad doktorantų profesinio identiteto raiškai tam tikri veiksniai yra svarbūs netiesiogiai, o per... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

Sustainability has become an important topic in many parts of society. However, companies struggle to translate it into their processes. If an individual values sustainability but is not able to fulfill these values an individual may feel a discrepancy; it may force individuals to feel an (in)congruence in their identity, leading to the question, How does sustainability identity (dis)congruence affect commitment? To answer the question a theoretical model was developed from different nuances of identity theory and organizational commitment. A mixed-method was used to capture the data. The results indicate that dependent on commitment style, the organization may override their personal sustainability identities. Our observations indicate that affective committed individuals choose to justify both personal and organizational actions in order to mitigate value incongruent behaviors. The thesis ends with a chapter of managerial recommendations. / <p><strong>Grade</strong>: Pass with distinction (VG)</p>

What does it mean to be a school leader trying to improve chronic absenteeism at the high school level? Intervening with chronically absent high school students entails adapting existing practices designed for students in attendance, finding alternate ways to motivate students who simply are not there, and affording educational opportunity equitably to students whose voices and stories have largely been silenced, all against a landscape of increasingly rigorous and conflicting accountability pressure associated with chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate and student achievement. While scholarship and dialogue pertaining to leadership responses to chronic absenteeism at the high school level generally support an emphasis on outreach and engagement with families, building relationships with students, affording students opportunities to recover credit, and connecting them to experiences that relate to the world of work after high school, scarce research focuses on the complex, dynamic role identities of the school leaders who innovate and implement these ad hoc responses, often without guidance from policy, and in turn, influence the experiences, outcomes and possibilities for chronically absent students. This current study investigated the ways that role identity components influenced the motivated actions of school and district leaders towards chronic absenteeism at the high school level. The study’s guiding questions were: (a) how do school leaders’ role identity components (i.e.., ontological and epistemological beliefs; purpose and goals; perceived action possibilities; self-perceptions and definitions) emerge and interact with each other to inform their actions regarding chronically absent high school students? (b) to what extent do the beliefs and perceptions of school leaders about supporting chronically absent students compare and contrast to the lived experiences of adults who were chronically absent students in high school? (c) to what extent do the beliefs and perceptions of school leaders about supporting chronically absent students compare and contrast to the lived experiences of parents and guardians of adults who were chronically absent students in high school? The guiding theoretical frame for this study is the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI; Kaplan & Garner, 2017). The DSMRI conceptualizes motivated action to be influenced by an actor’s dynamic and contextualized interpretation of his or her social cultural role, or role identity. According to the model, four multi-elemental components comprise an actor’s role identity: ontological and epistemological beliefs, purpose and goals, perceived action possibilities, and self-perceptions and definitions. These components are interdependent, irreducible, and reciprocally influencing each other, the behaviors and their meanings to the actor, and the future iterations of the actor’s role identity system. The study employed a narrative approach to investigate the school and district leaders’ motivated actions and the meanings they made of high school student absenteeism. Using Seidman’s (2013) protocol, I interviewed nine school leaders, five former students, and three parents who operated at a small, urban public school district in the Tri-State area about their past and present social-cultural roles concerning the meaning of they made of chronic absenteeism at the high school level. Additionally, I observed the nine school leaders and they provided artifacts and documents relating to chronic absenteeism. Transcribed interviews and the student focus group, as well as observations, documents and artifacts, were analyzed utilizing Saldana’s (2013) pragmatic eclecticism approach and Kaplan and Garner’s (2016) DSMRI Codebook and Analysis Guide. The results demonstrate how each school leader’s meaning of working with chronically absent students at the high school level, amidst an array of accountability pressures, has been incorporated into their dynamic role identity system within the sociocultural context, guiding their experiences, perceptions and actions. Despite their nuanced role identity systems - the participants come very different backgrounds with varied lived experiences and expertise in the domain, and reference different prior role identities and future role identities - the findings also highlighted common processes and content across Participant Roles (e.g., school leader, parent or student). This manifested distinctly in the themes reflecting school leaders’ actions changed in response to the system’s control parameter of accountability pressure, the ways school leaders communicated to parents and students about absenteeism, and the very different cultural meanings that students and parents gave to absenteeism and attendance than the cultural meanings and characteristics that school leaders largely experienced. These findings illuminate a complex, turbulent landscape comprised of school and district leaders, with myriad accountability systems to which they are beholden and their chronically absent students and families, all operating with multiple role identities that integrate with one another. The insights from this study can inform the work of educational leaders, educators and researchers who endeavor to intervene with the elusive problem of chronic absenteeism at the high school level. It may further guide educational leaders and policymakers who made decisions about the utility value of social-emotional learning that emphasizes exploration of identity for students, teachers, and leaders alike, as well as how outreach efforts are regarded and measured in school system outputs such as educator evaluation systems and professional development offerings. Importantly, this research aims to provide leaders with a tool for reflection on the importance of role identity as a lens to view their own professional practices and responses to challenging, complex problems in the domain such as chronic absenteeism. Moreover, when school systems were pressed to shut physically and adapt school services and instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the existing, multidimensional consideration of attending school manifested in new meanings and barriers for students, parents and school leaders grappling with the issue of chronic absenteeism in a changing context. Finally, this research aims to contribute, in a small way, to improve educational opportunity for all students, including those experiencing complex barriers to attending school. / Educational Administration

This work revealed what is at the core of a particular group of prospective teachers that underlie their commitment to teach in under-resourced schools and districts. Prospective teachers committed to teaching in under-resourced schools have qualities or attributes of recognition and respect for students and families who come from low-income and culturally different backgrounds and experiences. These prospective teachers were able to recognize complex interactions that students and their families face at the individual, social and institutional level. They also sought ways to address their students' learning needs by drawing from students' experiences to make meaningful connections between home and school. To identify students' and families' lived experiences, cultural practices, and language as resources to draw from, are acts of recognition and respect towards students and their families who are, for many prospective teachers, different from themselves. Recognition and respect for difference are essential attributes that underlie a socially just and humanistic pedagogy which can positively impact the learning outcomes for students who are historically poorly served by our public schools. This work highlights a different view that prospective teachers from majority White European backgrounds have about social others. It also provides a new framework using social otherness as a lens to reveal prospective teachers' understandings and knowledge about students and families from low-income backgrounds.

Thesis advisor: Mary E. Walsh / Gender is an undeniably significant element of human identity, contributing to multiple aspects of development. Previous research suggests that gender typicality, a sense that one is typical for one's own gender category, is associated with positive developmental outcomes among children while a sense of gender atypicality is generally associated with negative outcomes, including lowered self-esteem (Egan & Perry, 2001). This study further investigates the relationship between gender typicality and self-esteem from a developmental-contextual perspective by examining the relationship in the context of various developmental systems (e.g., school, peer group). Positive connections to developmental systems such as peers and school have been found to foster resilience by reinforcing strengths and buffering students from negative outcomes (Masten & Coatsworth, 1998). Therefore, it was hypothesized that classroom social support and school belonging would moderate the relationship between gender typicality and self-esteem by protecting gender atypical children from the negative cost of low self-esteem. Within the current sample, the relationship between gender typicality and self-esteem was more robust than in previous studies. While the moderating hypotheses were not confirmed, gender typicality was found to mediate the relationship between school belonging and self-esteem. The current findings underscore the vital role of gender and gender typicality in children's lives. Implications for prevention and intervention efforts in schools are discussed. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Teachers are unique when compared to most other professionals, as pre-service teachers spend more than a decade observing teachers in practice before entering their own professional training. This study investigated teacher candidates at the earliest point of their teacher training, entry into a teacher certification program, at the University of Sydney and University of Auckland in 2005. Specifically, this study sought to address how prior experiences informed the teacher role identity of male primary, female secondary and non-traditional student teachers. These three teacher candidate groups emerged from a previous study (Sexton, 2002) which explored post-graduate teacher candidates’ beliefs with the most vivid and articulate prior experiences. The study used a mixed-model research design to explore the research question, How do pre-service teacher candidates interpret prior teacher experiences as to the type of teacher they do and do not want to become? 354 entry-level teacher candidates were surveyed using both closed item and open-ended responses. From these participants, 35 were then interviewed before their course commencement and then again after their first teaching practicum. The study showed that there were differences as to how prior teachers informed the teacher role identity of entry-level student teachers. Male primary candidates were more influenced by their positive primary experiences of role model teachers. Female secondary participants remembered those secondary teachers who encouraged the development of critical thinking and they now wish to emulate this in their practice. Non-traditional student teachers remembered a wider range of educational experiences and entered into their teaching program to make a difference in both their and their students’ lives. The study highlights how in-service teachers play an important role in not only who will become teachers but also what subjects and school level future teachers will teach.