| Upgrading workwear uniforms for the upcoming | | | | embroidery for all its orders. “Our |
| winter in the UK is essential not only for | | | | embroidered workwear service is an ideal way to |
| employee safety and comfort, but to emprove | | | | reinforce your company brand, giving staff an |
| morale and productivity. A survey recently | | | | identity, as well as projecting your company |
| conducted by Yahoo! Hotjobs stated that 75% of | | | | identity to suppliers, clients and partners.” One |
| recruiters believe that how you dress at the | | | | of the most important obversations of the |
| office affects your job, salary, and prospective | | | | identity-signalling stude is the |
| promotions; particularly as a symbol for | | | | convergence-divergence dichotomy, in that, most |
| individuality and success. | | | | people want to assert their individualty within part |
| In a study published recenty from the University | | | | of a set group. |
| of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, there is | | | | Jonah Berger, a professor of organisational |
| evidence that companies use colours and | | | | behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate |
| emblems to personlise their employee workwear | | | | School of Business, explains that how the |
| and footwear as a means to benchmark human | | | | consumer choices are generated through a blend |
| resources, and develop them. The identity | | | | of conformity and divergence of others’ |
| signalling study, which appeared in the Journal of | | | | choices, including those of foreign parties. "People |
| Consumer Research (Vol. 34, Aug 2008) notes | | | | do not just differentiate themselves from |
| that people generally possess “a drive to | | | | out-groups in whatever idiosyncratic way they |
| differentiate themselves from others… when | | | | happen to choose; indeed, to signal identity clearly, |
| situational pressures make individuals feel overly | | | | people don't want to be the only one holding a |
| similar.” a suppliers of industrial workwear and | | | | given taste.” The paper was published in the |
| protective clothing in the UK, offers specialised | | | | Journal of Consumer Research in August. |