Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat
Conducted during the merger between two hospitals, this longitudinal study (N = 149) revealed that at both Time 1 (i.e., questionnaire completed 12 months prior to the merger) and Time 2 (completed 1 year after the merger had been implemented), employees from the low-status premerger organization ge...
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| author | Amiot, C. Terry, Deborah McKimme, B. |
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| description | Conducted during the merger between two hospitals, this longitudinal study (N = 149) revealed that at both Time 1 (i.e., questionnaire completed 12 months prior to the merger) and Time 2 (completed 1 year after the merger had been implemented), employees from the low-status premerger organization generally reported lower adjustment to the merger. Whereas Time 2 identity threat predicted lower and decreased identification with the new merged organization and perceptions of a common in group identity, perceived similarities between the merging organizations at Time 2 predicted higher identification with the new merged organization and higher perceptions of a common in group identity. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-374502017-09-13T13:38:15Z Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat Amiot, C. Terry, Deborah McKimme, B. Conducted during the merger between two hospitals, this longitudinal study (N = 149) revealed that at both Time 1 (i.e., questionnaire completed 12 months prior to the merger) and Time 2 (completed 1 year after the merger had been implemented), employees from the low-status premerger organization generally reported lower adjustment to the merger. Whereas Time 2 identity threat predicted lower and decreased identification with the new merged organization and perceptions of a common in group identity, perceived similarities between the merging organizations at Time 2 predicted higher identification with the new merged organization and higher perceptions of a common in group identity. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37450 10.1080/01973533.2012.712016 Psychology Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Amiot, C. Terry, Deborah McKimme, B. Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title | Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title_full | Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title_fullStr | Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title_short | Social Identity Change During an Intergroup Merger: The Role of Status, Similarity, and Identity Threat |
| title_sort | social identity change during an intergroup merger: the role of status, similarity, and identity threat |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37450 |