Self-Verification: Application in Organizational Management

Abstract

People always have the psychology and behavior to seek, maintain and strengthen themselves. Once individuals have ideas about themselves, they will try to prove these self-concepts. Self-verification theory believes that individuals have a tendency to understand their true self. Based on the review of the existing research on self-verification theory, the article outlines the connotation of self-verification, the difference and comparison of similar concepts, influencing factors and the objects of occurrence, and focuses on the field of organizational behavior to sort out the theory’s role in organizational management. Application, and finally form the research framework of integrated self-verification theory in the field of organizational behavior.