2023 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 68-72
To consider the development of university professional staff who take the initiative in university management, it is necessary to approach the internal changes in university staff. While many studies have focused on changes caused by variations in the external environment, few studies investigate the inner lives of individual university staff members and track their changes introspectively. This study attempted to illuminate the dynamism of organizational identity by focusing on the following two questions: “Who are we?” and “How do others perceive us? In the US and the UK, the professionalization of university staff is said to be more advanced than in Japan. In this report, the process of their organizational identity change was explored based on some interviews with university staff in the UK. A research question was formulated regarding how the organizational identity of university staff changes according to their career stage. The findings are summarized as follows: (1) University staff members change their organizational identities in response to environmental changes and challenges during their daily work; and (2) the organizational identity structure changes according to job responsibilities and career stages. These findings can be applied to programs for professional development in university management, which is the theme of this project. In addition, this study serves as a foundation for future research on the growth of university personnel.
