THE ENACTMENT-EXTERNALIZATION DIALECTIC: RATIONALIZATION AND THE PERSISTENCE OF COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY DESIGN PRACTICES IN STUDENT ENGINEERING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Leonardi, Paul M.; Jackson, Michele H.; Diwan, Amer
• 署名单位: Northwestern University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.37315471
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 400-420
• 关键词: SOCIALIZATION TACTICS; perceptions; IDENTITY; projects; LAW

摘要

This article explores why engineering students are committed to counterproductive practices. Student informants' work practices appeared to coincide with lay stereotypes about what good engineers do, and they sought to justify those practices as rational. This externalization encouraged them to perform these practices more frequently. We characterize the relationship between the enactment of norms and the externalization of work practices as a dialectical process that helps explain why the students could not conceive of changing their practices. We draw implications for theory on occupational socialization and for the management of engineering work from our findings.