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The Entrenchment Of The Ideal Worker Norm During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Working Mothers In The U.S., Mona Zanhour, Dana Sumpter Jul 2022

The Entrenchment Of The Ideal Worker Norm During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Working Mothers In The U.S., Mona Zanhour, Dana Sumpter

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We study shifts in the ideal worker culture as experienced by working mothers across organizations in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the experiences of 53 interviewees in how they attended to increased responsibilities across both work and family domains, we saw an entrenchment of the ideal worker culture across nearly all organizations and professions. This manifested in three levels, as (1) a reinforced ideal worker culture in the workplace through work-intensification, increased competitiveness, and surface-level support; (2) the reinforcing of organizations’ ideal worker norms at home, with gendered division of space and labor, and (3) experienced …


It’S About Time: Understanding Job Crafting Through The Lens Of Individuals’ Temporal Characteristics, Hannah Weisman, Uta K. Bindl, Cristina B. Gibson, Kerrie L. Unsworth Apr 2022

It’S About Time: Understanding Job Crafting Through The Lens Of Individuals’ Temporal Characteristics, Hannah Weisman, Uta K. Bindl, Cristina B. Gibson, Kerrie L. Unsworth

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Job crafting refers to the myriad ways employees customize their jobs, such as by altering their tasks and social interaction at work. Numerous scholars over the past 20 years have remarked on the overall need to better understand the role of time in job crafting. However, the literature has not considered how employees think about time, or, relatedly, how they use and manage it—and why this might matter for job crafting. To address these unresolved issues, the current paper develops a conceptual model of individual-level, time-related characteristics that shape employees’ engagement in job crafting and the effects of job crafting …


Technology, Gender And Organizations: A Systematic Mapping Study, Gonzalo Valdes, Bobbi Thomason, Andrea Bentancor, Isidora Jeria, Constanza Troncoso Jan 2022

Technology, Gender And Organizations: A Systematic Mapping Study, Gonzalo Valdes, Bobbi Thomason, Andrea Bentancor, Isidora Jeria, Constanza Troncoso

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In this article, we employed a systematic mapping methodology to examine the existing literature at the intersection of technology, gender and organizations. While much has been written about gender in organizations, the research has not consistently considered that modern organizations are increasingly technology-driven - in technology may lie an underexplored lever that could help expand our understanding of gender issues at the workplace. By analyzing a final sample of 168 research papers, we found that two main forms of conceptualizing technology emerged: technology as culture and technology as tools. Papers in the first category are concerned with environments in which …