How does Military culture correlate with organizational identity and transitional success in higher education settings?
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Department
Sociology
Abstract
Within the past decade, research on guilt has highlighted how the negative emotion may elicit lucrative pro-organizational behaviors amongst employees (Schaumberg & Flynn, 2019; Liu & Xiang, 2017). This study investigates the concept of guilt elicitation within organizational culture and applies it to the current discussion surrounding the student veteran transitional conflict. Due to the military’s highly absorptive environment and guilt-inducing organizational culture of self-sacrifice, members may have the potential to form a reconstructed identity based upon organizational guilt (Bohns & Flynn, 2013; Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020). The departure of such an identity during organization separation has been theorized, by research on veterans and identity, to potentially alter psychological wellbeing due to the loss of relatedness and reduced cultural competency of the civilian world (Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020; Cooper et al., 2017). Such losses have been posited to contribute to the potential occurrence of transitional identity conflict. (Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020). This study investigates how reports of military culture absorption amongst student veterans correlate with organizational identification and transitional success in higher educational settings.
How does Military culture correlate with organizational identity and transitional success in higher education settings?
Within the past decade, research on guilt has highlighted how the negative emotion may elicit lucrative pro-organizational behaviors amongst employees (Schaumberg & Flynn, 2019; Liu & Xiang, 2017). This study investigates the concept of guilt elicitation within organizational culture and applies it to the current discussion surrounding the student veteran transitional conflict. Due to the military’s highly absorptive environment and guilt-inducing organizational culture of self-sacrifice, members may have the potential to form a reconstructed identity based upon organizational guilt (Bohns & Flynn, 2013; Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020). The departure of such an identity during organization separation has been theorized, by research on veterans and identity, to potentially alter psychological wellbeing due to the loss of relatedness and reduced cultural competency of the civilian world (Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020; Cooper et al., 2017). Such losses have been posited to contribute to the potential occurrence of transitional identity conflict. (Carpenter &Silbermann, 2020). This study investigates how reports of military culture absorption amongst student veterans correlate with organizational identification and transitional success in higher educational settings.
