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100 1 _aIBARRA, Herminia
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245 1 0 _aProvisional selves :
_bexperimenting with image and identity in professional adaptation
260 _aIthaca :
_bJohnson Graduate School of Management,
_cDecember 1999
520 3 _aThis article describes how people adapt to new roles by experimenting with provisional selves that serve as trials for possible but not yet fully elaborated professional identitites. Qualitative data collected from professionals in transition to more senior roles reveal that adaptation involves three basic tasks:(1) observing role models to identify potential identities, (2) experimenting with provisional selves, and (3) evaluating experimeting against internal standards and external feedback. Choices within tasks are guided by ana evolving repertory that includes images about the kind of professional one might become and the styles, skills, atitudes, and routines available to the person for constructing those identities. A conceptual framwork is proposed in which individual and situational factors influence adaptation behaviors indirectly by shaping the repertory of possibilities that guides selfconstruction
773 0 8 _tAdministrative Science Quarterly
_g44, 4, p. 764-791
_dIthaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, December 1999
_xISSN 00018392
_w
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_bCassio
_cCassio
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_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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