Mailys M. George

IESE Business School - Universidad de Navarra · Managing People in Organizations

Although scholars across fields have studied threats to individuals’ identities for their impact and ubiquity, the absence of standard scales has hindered the advancement of this research. Due to the lack of identity threat measures, the myriad existing propositions and models remain untested which may generate skepticism of the field. In the compa...

Movement between sequentially-held roles—role transition—has long attracted scholars’ attention for its ubiquity and importance in people’s work- and non-work lives. In our integrative review of 313 cross-discipline empirical articles, we find that the transitions attributes defined by Ebaugh (1988) and Ashforth (2001), the field’s seminal works, h...

The papers in this symposium share the aim of advancing research on the identity threats individuals encounter in organizations. Utilizing qualitative and quantitative approaches, the papers in this symposium address three important limitations of current research on identity threats. Specifically, the first presentation provides an empirical inves...