The Professional Life Space (PLS) drawing: a tool for shaping professional identities. A study on prison police officers.

Chiara D'Angelo; Caterina Gozzoli; Davide Mezzanotte

The Professional Life Space (PLS) drawing: a tool for shaping professional identities. A study on prison police officers.

Chiara D'Angelo
, Caterina Gozzoli
, Davide Mezzanotte

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Abstract

This work aims at presenting the potentialities of the Professional Life Space drawing (PLS) carrying out research on professional identity (Sveningsson & Alvesson, 2003). The PLS, an adaptation of the individual version of the Family Life Space (FLS) (Gozzoli, Tamanza, 2008), is a graphic-symbolic tool which catches the representation made by a single professional on his/her professional world and his/her professional relevant network. The study presented refers to a group of 15 police officers of an Italian Prison. By applying the tool on a specific group of professional who are experiencing difficult professional conditions (stress, overload of job) this work wants to point out the potentialities of the tool in activating reflexivity and sense-making about professional identities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Authors in practice, practical authorship. Proceedings of the congress Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities.
Pages	47
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	Authors in practice, practical authorship. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) Congress. - Milano Duration: 9 Apr 2015 → 11 Apr 2015

Conference

Conference	Authors in practice, practical authorship. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) Congress.
City	Milano
Period	9/4/15 → 11/4/15

Keywords

Professional Life Space
professional identity

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D'Angelo, C , Gozzoli, C & Mezzanotte, D 2015, The Professional Life Space (PLS) drawing: a tool for shaping professional identities. A study on prison police officers. in Authors in practice, practical authorship. Proceedings of the congress Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities.. pp. 47, Authors in practice, practical authorship. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) Congress., Milano, 9/4/15.

The Professional Life Space (PLS) drawing: a tool for shaping professional identities. A study on prison police officers. / D'Angelo, Chiara ; Gozzoli, Caterina; Mezzanotte, Davide.
Authors in practice, practical authorship. Proceedings of the congress Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities.. 2015. p. 47.

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