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Critical perspectives on Mnanagement and organizations (Ideal Worker…
Critical perspectives on Mnanagement and organizations
Ideal Worker
Totally committed to their work
Always available
Employees who embrace these characteristics are richly rewarded
The typical image is of a male worker
Consequences of using integrated identity
management strategies for professionals
Gender differences
The reasons for the above patterns are complex – often attributed to women being more likely to utilise formal accommodations (e.g. parental leave) provided by employer than men
Senior audience perceptions of professionals dictate the performance evaluation system
– Women less likely to engage to identity management strategies that allows passing to high-status audiences and more likely to reveal
– Men are equally likely to use passing as well as revealing identity management strategies
External perceptions and performance evaluation
Low performance
who use revealing identity management strategies to cope with conflict
High performance
Those who embrace the expected professional identity
Those who use passing identity management strategies to cope with conflict
organisational mechanisms of identity control
Structure of work
Always prioritising work demands over all other life demands
Always being available to the employer
Creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of professionals
Performance evaluations
Reinforcing the above structure of work by rewarding those who fulfill such expected professional identity requirements
promotion
salary increment
non-monetary reward
Creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of professionals
Professional identity
Two main forms
Expected: employer expectations and beliefs
Experienced: own expectations and belief's
Role Identities comprise of goals, values, beliefs, norms, interaction styles and time horizons associated with a given role
management strategies for multiple audience
spillover of perceptions across audience
combining passing and revealing
Audience ststus.Closeness of relationship .Formal accommodations.Extremeity of the conflict experiences