The School of Information Presents:

Professor C.V. Harquail

University of Michigan

Why Some Women Advocate While Others Do Not: The Role of Social Identification

October 30, 1998
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Accompanying Slides

Title Slide

Group advocacy

The effects of social identification on advocacy

Social identification: defined

Social identification: effects

Hypothesis 1

Socially identified group members will think differently

Hypothesis 28

Socially identified group members will think differently about themselves

Hypothesis 3

Socially identified group members will think differently about their behavior

Hypothesis 4

Hypothesis 1: results

Hypothesis 2: results

Hypothesis 3: results

Hypothesis 4: results

Regression with all variables

Why wasn't social distinctiveness a more significant mediator?

Why was feeling responsible such a powerful mediator?

Content of identity "women"

The effects of social identification theory on advocacy

Contributions 1

Contributions 2

Comments by Taylor Cox

Q & A led by Professor Harquail

Professor C.V. Harquail's is the recipient of the first ever Likert Dissertation Paper Award. C.V.'s talk is based on her paper: "Why some women advocate while others assimilate: The influence of social identification on group advocacy in organizations". CV received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1996. Upon graduating, CV joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. She has published a range of papers that look at how identification processes affect behavior in organizations. A sampling of her published papers include: "Organizational identification and the 'whole person': Integrating affect and behavior into cognitive models of identification", "Navigating by attire: Individuals' use of dress in organizations". "Organizational images and member identification", "Organizational culture and acculturation" and "Career paths and career success in early career stages of male and female MBAs". This ICOS session is a special one. Not only does it include the granting of the Likert Dissertation Paper Award to Professor Harquail, it also includes Professor Robert Kahn's reflections on Renesis Likert, and C.V.'s dissertation chair, Professor Taylor Cox's reflections on C.V. and her work.

Robert Kahn

Introduction by Michael Cohen and Robert Kahn, comments by Taylor Cox.

Recording and web production by David W. Allison