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Anna Wallin1, Petri Nokelainen1, Mari Kira2
1Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland.
Vocations and Learning
|April 4, 2022
Summary
Digitalization impacts professional development by affecting work-identity alignment. Understanding these connections helps create supportive work environments for employee growth and value.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Sociology of Work
- Digital Transformation Studies
Background:
- Digitalization is reshaping modern workplaces, influencing employee experiences and career trajectories.
- Professional development is increasingly linked to how individuals adapt to technological changes and evolving work identities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between digitalization and professional development through an identity-centered lens.
- To explore how Finnish government workers experience and respond to work-identity alignments and misalignments in a digitalized work environment.
- To identify typologies of worker responses to digitalization and their impact on professional growth.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of a unique dataset comprising 101 empathy-based stories from 81 Finnish government workers.
- Qualitative exploration of individual experiences with digitalization, work identity, and professional development.
- Identification and categorization of distinct worker typologies based on their responses to digital work environments.
Main Results:
- Four worker typologies were identified: the thriving developer, the loyal transformer, the stagnant self-doubter, and the career crafter.
- Digitalization was found to either support or hinder professional development by inducing work-identity (mis)alignments.
- Workers engage in identity work and job crafting to navigate these (mis)alignments, influencing their professional development pathways.
Conclusions:
- Professional identity and agency are crucial drivers of professional development in the digital age.
- Recognizing how digitalization affects workers' professional identities is essential for fostering supportive and meaningful work environments.
- Workplace strategies should aim to support rather than threaten workers' professional identities to promote valued development.
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