Organizational Actors & The Employee: An exploration of the influences, modifiers, and anchors of employee identity regarding career change

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Abstract This research paper seeks to uncover some of the influences, modifiers and anchors of employee identity regarding career change. It employs Post Modern Theory within a social construct of reality frame to explore the discursive implications of organizational identity on employee identity. It further illuminates the differences between organization’s modernistic approach to identity and employee’s post modern approach to identity and the associated change challenges therein. The use of organizational rhetoric and strategic ambiguity as identity modifiers as well as the impact of employee self categorization processes, inter-group assimilation behavior, and identity threat responses are also expanded upon as potential sites of employee based career change thought and action.