Gender Support Disparities in a Majority-Female Profession

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Melissa Radey ◽  
Lisa Schelbe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Coworker Support ◽  
Welfare Workers

Abstract Theory and empirical evidence establish gender disparities in work pay and promotion trajectories, particularly in majority-male workplaces. Workplace support’s role, particularly in majority-female workplaces, in facilitating gendered occupational trajectories is less clear. Authors used a statewide sample of child welfare workers (N = 1,501) to examine gender differences in support and analyzed qualitative interviews with a subsample of participants (n = 37) to explore the role of gender in support perceptions. Analyses indicated that men perceived more supervisory and organizational support, whereas gender was not related to coworker support. The qualitative analysis indicated that receiving support required initiative. Men took initiative because they felt entitled. Many women expressed reservations, often warranted from experience, about initiating support to avoid bothering others and to honor workplace hierarchy. Men’s initiative allowed them access to support, thus increasing propensity toward job success. This study indicates that gender differences in workplace support may contribute to producing a self-perpetuating system of structural inequality.

Navigating emotions in child welfare: Immigrant parents’ experiences and perceptions of involvement with child welfare services in Norway

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989777
Author(s):  
Memory Jayne Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
Parents Experiences

This study explores immigrant parents’ emotional experiences in child welfare services as well as parents’ emotional management and their interpretations of the role of emotions in the child welfare system. The analysis revealed that strong negative emotions dominate parents’ experiences and correspond to immigrant-related challenges and factors associated with child welfare involvement. The study suggests that parents perceive that the way child welfare workers interpret their emotions affects the decisions the workers make and how the parents are perceived during the case. The study further highlights ways that parents manage their emotions during cases to prompt favourable outcomes.

The Role of Supervision in the Retention of Public Child Welfare Workers

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Jacquet ◽  
Sherrill J. Clark ◽  
Jennifer L. Morazes ◽  
Rebecca Withers
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Public Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare Workers

A frog in boiling water? A qualitative analysis of psychiatrists’ use of metaphor in relation to psychological trauma

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 656-659
Author(s):  
Sophie Isobel ◽  
Andrea McCloughen ◽  
Kim Foster
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Management Expectations ◽  
Depth Interviews

Objective: Tensions about the definition, diagnostics, and role of psychological trauma in psychiatry are long-standing. This study sought to explore what metaphor patterns in qualitative interviews may reveal about the beliefs of psychiatrists in relation to trauma. Method: A qualitative inquiry using systematic metaphor analysis of 13 in-depth interviews with Australian psychiatrists. Results: Three themes were identified: a power struggle between people, trauma, and psychiatry; trauma is not a medical condition; and serving the profession to protect society. Conclusions: Metaphors present trauma as a powerful force that people can manage in different ways. Psychiatrists may view trauma as a social rather than medical issue. Psychiatrists experience role pressure associated with trauma including incongruence with risk management expectations of their roles.

Linking supervisor support to innovation implementation behavior via commitment

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiguo Yang ◽  
Qi Hao ◽  
Hongfeng Song
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
Coworker Support ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how perceived supervisor support (PSS) affects employees' innovation implementation behavior (IIB), the psychological mechanisms of this relationship, and the role of perceived coworker support (PCS).Design/methodology/approachUsing a three-phase survey, data were collected from 307 employees of a state-owned coal company located in the central region of China. The study tests the hypotheses by using hierarchical regression analyses. The mediating effects and the moderated mediating effects are further examined by using bias-corrected bootstrapping methods.FindingsAffective commitment (AC) fully mediates the positive relationship between PSS and IIB, and this mediating effect can be moderated by PCS.Practical implicationsCompanies should foster supportive supervisors and colleagues by investing in appropriate training programs. In addition, managers should emphasize the psychological changes of employees and provide more supportive feelings for them.Originality/valueThe study explicitly tests the entire causal chain implied by organizational support theory in predicting IIB. It specifies the different role of two similar support constructs (i.e. supervisor support and coworker support) in affecting employees' attitudes and behaviors.

The mediating role of job content plateau on the relationship between work experience characteristics and early retirement and turnover intentions

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hila Hofstetter ◽  
Aaron Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Coworker Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Retirement Intentions

Purpose – The study aims to elucidate the relationship between five work experiences or conditions (age-related stereotypes, perceived organizational support [POS], coworker support, career satisfaction, and reaching a job plateau) and two different organizational withdrawal intentions – early retirement and turnover – in light of trends to abolish or increase the mandatory retirement age in Israel and elsewhere in the Western world. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a survey of a heterogeneous age sample of 170 unionized employees working in medium-sized Israeli industrial firms. Findings – POS and perceived age stereotypes were negatively related to early retirement intentions and not to turnover intentions. Job plateau was found to be related to the other work-related variables, with the exception of coworker support, and also was found to be a strong mediator between these variables and employees ' turnover intentions, and a partial mediator between the variables and early retirement intentions. Practical implications – The study suggests a managerial focus on the person-job fit over time as a tool for reducing employees ' turnover intentions, and encouraging continued employee development as a way to reduce early retirement intentions. Originality/value – The study focuses on the potential role of correctable contextual characteristics in triggering withdrawal responses, in light of the aging of the workforce.

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