THE GLASS SLIPPER: INCORPORATING OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ashcraft, Karen Lee
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2010.0219
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 6-31
• 关键词: PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY; BRINGING WORK; GENDER; CONSTRUCTION; women; INEQUALITY; DYNAMICS; RACE; body; ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

Management scholars have long separated the study of work and diversity, assuming that the nature of work itself is not affected by race or gender. Research on occupational segregation invalidates this assumption, confirming that we judge the nature of work in large part by the social identities aligned with it. Management theorists have yet to digest this evidence because of a unilateral view of the work-practitioner relation (i.e., people derive identity from work), which conceals a reciprocal relation (i.e., work derives identity from associated people). I build a bilateral view that accommodates available evidence by theorizing a new glass metaphor-the glass slipper-to capture occupational identity by association as it yields systematic forms of advantage and disadvantage. The metaphor elucidates how occupations come to appear naturally possessed of features that fit certain people yet are improbable for others. This article thus contributes to management knowledge by redefining the current division of scholarly labor as a consequential theoretical problem and developing the requisite theoretical tools to redress that problem. Through the glass slipper metaphor. I theorize collective occupational identity and its relation to other social identities in a way that fosters the sustainable integration of work and diversity studies.