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dc.contributor.authorDamman, Sigrid
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-16T15:55:10Z
dc.date.available2019-10-16T15:55:10Z
dc.date.created2012-11-28T15:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationAnthropology in Action. 2012, 19 (1), 47-59.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0967-201X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2622660
dc.description.abstractThe article is based on multi-sited fieldwork in a multinational corporation, where psychological tests were used extensively to facilitate communication and human resource development. The analysis indicates that the test effects were more complex than intended. Their application may be considered as a form of audit that was both individualizing and totalizing. While socio-cultural negotiations reached a level with new common reference points, attention was diverted away from important aspects of the socio-cultural context. Individuals were quick to struggle and assert themselves through the categories of the tests, but at the same time the room for diverse, independent articulations of identity at work seemed to be diminishing. In other words, the application of the tests may have opened some discursive fields, but narrowed others, thus contributing to a form of generification (Errington and Gewertz 2001) and entification (Zubiri 1984) of work identities. These observations give reason to question and continue exploring the effects of psychological typologies in corporate settings.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherBerghahn Journalsnb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.no*
dc.title'Where is your "F"?': Psychological Testing, Communication and Identity Formation in a Multinational Corporationnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber47-59nb_NO
dc.source.volume19nb_NO
dc.source.journalAnthropology in Actionnb_NO
dc.source.issue1nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.3167/aia.2012.190106
dc.identifier.cristin965923
dc.description.localcodeCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,67,45,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for sosialantropologi
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