TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic identity positioning at work: Understanding professional career experiences
AU - Ossenkop, C.
AU - Vinkenburg, C.J.
AU - Jansen, P.G.W.
AU - Ghorashi, H.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In our effort to uncover, understand, and make sense of career experiences of ethnic diverse employees in a professional service firm in the Netherlands, we unraveled ethnic identity construction through analyzing accounts of individual sensemaking, interaction, and institutional practices. The analysis of 26 semi-structured interviews of dominant and minority ethnic professionals shows how both dominant and minority ethnic identity construction is conflated with processes of "othering" in relation to the hegemonic norm. We illustrate and problematize the emergence of the normalization of othering by highlighting its potential consequences for individual career experiences. By opening up the discussion of identity matters in professionals' career experiences, we suggests means to move away from normalized processes of othering by making room for alterity.
AB - In our effort to uncover, understand, and make sense of career experiences of ethnic diverse employees in a professional service firm in the Netherlands, we unraveled ethnic identity construction through analyzing accounts of individual sensemaking, interaction, and institutional practices. The analysis of 26 semi-structured interviews of dominant and minority ethnic professionals shows how both dominant and minority ethnic identity construction is conflated with processes of "othering" in relation to the hegemonic norm. We illustrate and problematize the emergence of the normalization of othering by highlighting its potential consequences for individual career experiences. By opening up the discussion of identity matters in professionals' career experiences, we suggests means to move away from normalized processes of othering by making room for alterity.
U2 - 10.1016/j.scaman.2015.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.scaman.2015.08.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0956-5221
VL - 31
SP - 515
EP - 525
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Management
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Management
IS - 4
ER -