Credibility lost: attempting to reclaim an expert identity in an HR professional context

Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 348 - 363
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Abstract
Professional insecurity is a long-standing concern within HR, with claims to expertise seen as critical to credibility. Considering HR as an epistemic community and drawing on the identity work literature, we examine an identity threat to, and subsequent response by, a training and development (T&D) team. Based on ethnographic exposure to their practice, we explore how team members experience the threat and follow their attempts to re-establish...
Paper Details
Title
Credibility lost: attempting to reclaim an expert identity in an HR professional context
Published Date
Feb 13, 2015
Volume
25
Issue
3
Pages
348 - 363
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