THIS IS MY PARTNER,AND THIS IS MY … PARTNER'S PARTNER: CONSTRUCTING A POLYAMOROUS IDENTITY IN A MONOGAMOUS WORLD

Abstract

The family inside: Working with the multiple by Doris Bryant, Judy Kessler, Lynda Shirar: New York: W. W. Norton, 1992, 268 pp., $32.95     

Identification in the Self-Managing Organization Characteristics of Target and Tenure

This study examines the characteristics of worker identification with two targets at the same time: the workers' self-managing team and the larger organization that created the teams. We administered the Organizational Identification Questionnaire in such a way as to tap levels of identification with each target and used the results of an ethnographic study of the subjects to enhance our analysis. Our data suggest that workers identified more strongly with their team than with their company, particularly in terms of loyalty. In addition, long-term workers reported more identification with both their team and company than did short-term workers. The results support the assertion that a concertive (or team-based) system of control is more powerful, even if less obtrusive, than its bureaucratic predecessor.