scholarly journals Sensemaking by minority entrepreneurs: role identities and linguistic embeddedness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Maria Ivanova-Gongne ◽  
Stefan Lång ◽  
Malin Brännback ◽  
Alan Carsrud
Keyword(s):  
Role Identities ◽  
Minority Entrepreneurs

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

When Worlds Collide: Framing Students’ Challenges with Stay-at-home Learning During COVID-19 through the Lens of Conflicting Role Identities

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Merete Hvalshagen ◽  
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Lakshmi Nittala ◽  
Roopa Raman ◽  
Nicholas Sullivan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Role Identities ◽  
Home Learning ◽  
Conflicting Role ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals The Emotional Labor of Personal Grief in Palliative Care: Balancing Caring and Professional Identities

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 2211-2221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Funk ◽  
Sheryl Peters ◽  
Kerstin Stieber Roger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Patient Death ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Health Care Employees ◽  
Health Care Aides ◽  
Normative Constraints ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Provision Of Care

The paid provision of care for dying persons and their families blends commodified emotion work and attachments to two often-conflicting role identities: the caring person and the professional. We explore how health care employees interpret personal grief related to patient death, drawing on interviews with 12 health care aides and 13 nurses. Data were analyzed collaboratively using an interpretively embedded thematic coding approach and constant comparison. Participant accounts of preventing, postponing, suppressing, and coping with grief revealed implicit meanings about the nature of grief and the appropriateness of grief display. Employees often struggled to find the time and space to deal with grief, and faced normative constraints on grief expression at work. Findings illustrate the complex ways health care employees negotiate and maintain both caring and professional identities in the context of cultural and material constraints. Implications of emotional labor for discourse and practice in health care settings are discussed.

The impact of trust on social and financial capital acquisition: A resource integration perspective in minority-owned entrepreneurial organisations

2022 ◽  
pp. 026624262110553
Author(s):  
Ronald L Pegram ◽  
Camelia L Clarke ◽  
James W Peltier ◽  
K Praveen Parboteeah
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Resource Integration ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Minority Entrepreneurs

Although effective resource integration is a critical requisite for entrepreneurial success, the literature suggests there are crucial gaps for minority entrepreneurs. We examine how interracial distrust (ID), an indicator of the extent to which minority entrepreneurs distrust other races, is related to internal and social capital. We examine the relationships of such capitals on the willingness to borrow from banks and friends, and explore the link with firm performance. Using a sample of 276 primarily African American entrepreneurs, we find support for most of our hypotheses. We find that ID is negatively associated with external social capital and a willingness to borrow from banks. Surprisingly, we found that ID had a negative effect on internal social capital and a willingness to borrow from friends. We also found that internal and external social capital was positively related to firm performance. We discuss the implications of some of these surprising research findings as well as the policy implications.

Gender Inequalities in Japan

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Kaori Honjo
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Post War

Striking gender inequalities in Japanese society are rooted in beliefs about gender division of labour. Gender-based social norms have driven employment and working practices such as long working hours. The male breadwinner model has only recently started to give way to more diverse role identities. Despite persistent gender inequalities, Japanese women have the longest life expectancy in the world. This paradoxical relationship can be explained by 1) overall women’s positive health behaviours, 2) Japan’s post-war social security programmes, protecting the vast majority of full-time homemakers, and 3) women’s roles in the household and the relation with their psychological wellbeing. The rigidity in current social programmes has failed to meet the needs of increasingly diverse Japanese society, which has contributed to rising female poverty and associated health problems.

scholarly journals Street-level bureaucrats under new managerialism: a comparative study of agency cultures and caseworker role identities in two welfare state bureaucracies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Jacobsson ◽  
Ylva Wallinder ◽  
Ida Seing
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Organizational Demands ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

Abstract Officials in welfare state bureaucracies face the challenge of negotiating their role identities in the context of changeable organizational priorities and managerial styles. Previous studies have found that the professional values may mediate top-down demands and enable the preservation of professional autonomy also under public management reforms. But how do street-level bureaucrats who lack a common professional or occupational training respond to shifting organizational demands? Based on comparative ethnography, the present article investigates how caseworkers’ role identities are conceived and practised in two of the largest state bureaucracies in Sweden, the Social Insurance Agency (SIA) and the Public Employment Service (PES). The article identifies two radically different agency cultures, resulting in rather opposite caseworker role identities. These role identities affect how front-line staff respond to organizational demands, either by focusing externally on client-related outcomes (PES) or internally on organizational output (SIA). The analysis suggests that agency culture may shape caseworker responses to governance in patterned ways, also in the absence of joint professional training or strong occupational communities.

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