Social Identity comprises the parts of a person’s identity that come from belonging to particular groups, including age, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and socioeconomic status. Your social identity informs how you lead. The social identities of those around you affect how they view you as a leader and how they views, and thus work with, others. This guidebook includes questions and activities to help you develop your awareness of social identity. Armed with that knowledge, you can decrease the likelihood of misunderstanding, increase your ability to be open to different perspectives, and enhance your skill at accurately interpreting situation that call on your ability to lead.
Innehållsförteckning
7 Social Identity in Organizations
8 Understanding Social Identity
12 Components of Identity
13 Mapping Your Identity
19 Understanding Other Identity Perspectives
21 Social Identity and Power
23 Advice for Leading in the Context of Difference
25 Going Forward with Awareness
26 Suggested Readings
26 Background
27 Key Point Summary
Om författaren
This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, sinceits inception in 1970, through its research and educationalactivity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands ofmanagers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a waythat is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply acollection of individual experts, although the individualcredentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and workingtogether to understand and generate practical responses to today’sleadership and organizational challenges.
The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specificadvice on how to complete a developmental task or solve aleadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL’smission to advance the understanding, practice, and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide.
We think you will find the Ideas Into Action Guidebooks animportant addition to your leadership toolkit.
Kelly M. Hannum is an enterprise associate in the Global Leadership and Diversity and the Design and Evaluation groups atthe Center for Creative Leadership. She holds a Ph.D. ineducational research, measurement, and evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.