Legal readings: Employee interpretation and mobilization of law

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fuller, SR; Edelman, LB; Matusik, SF
• 署名单位: University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Rice University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259270
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 200-216
• 关键词: AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION; ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE; civil-rights; DUE-PROCESS; WORKPLACE; opportunity; CRITIQUE; environments; CONSTRUCTION; perceptions

摘要

Organizational scholars have studied the impact of employment law on the structure of formed organizations but have given little attention to how law affects everyday life within work organizations. Here we propose a legal readings model of how law is received and mobilized by employees. This posits that law within organizations is composed of employees' beliefs about law and mobilization of law which develop from interaction with employers' law-related actions. Employees' legal readings function much like a prism, redirecting legal rules in multiple and sometimes unanticipated directions.