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Critical perspectives on management (Ideal worker image (Totally committed…
Critical perspectives on management
Ideal worker image
Totally committed
Always available
24/7/365 work cycle
Ideal workers are rewarded
Prioritise work ahead of family and personal needs
Strategies for coping with professional identity conflicts
Straying
passing
intentional or accidental misrepresentation of membership in the favoured group
Personally altering the structure of work
Focusing on cultivating a local client base
Working on internal projects to reduce travel time
Working from home
revealing
intentional or accidental disclosure of non-membership in the favoured group
Seeking assistance in restructuring work
Applying for reduced workloads
Seeking parental and/or carer’s leave
management strategies for
multiple audiences
Factors influencing the use of passing and revealing when interacting with audiences
Closeness of relationship
Audience status
Perceived access to formal accommodations
Extremity of the conflict experienced
Spillover of perceptions across audiences
Passing to high-status audiences tends to facilitate passing to equal or low-status audiences
Revealing to close colleagues often results in informal restructuring of work which enables one to pass to wider high-status audiences
Revealing to high-status audiences often results in revealing to broader audiences across the organisation
Professional identity
Two main forms: expected vs experienced
Expected: employer's expectations & beliefs
Experienced: employee's expectations & beliefs
Organisations who employee professionals expect them to live up to the 'ideal worker' image
Conflict arises when a worker's experienced professional identity does not meet this image
Organisational control of employee's professional identities
Structure of work: successful performance of the role is contingent on prioritising work above all else
Performance evaluations: reinforces structure of work through rewarding those who meet expectations
Gender differences
Women and men have vastly different experiences
Women more likely to use revealing identity management strategies
Men are equally likely to employee passing and revealing strategies