Gender and Organizational Rule Abidance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Portillo, Shannon; DeHart-Davis, Leisha
• 署名单位: George Mason University; University of Kansas
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.01978.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 339-347
• 关键词: critical mass; sex; sex/gender; rejoinder; BEHAVIOR

摘要

A long-standing contention in the public and private management literatures is that women use rule abidance as a way to compensate for their relative lack of organizational power. Many of the studies making this assertion rely on anecdotal evidence rather than theory-guided empirical studies. In this paper, the authors use survey data collected from four cities in a midwestern state to empirically test gender dimensions of rule abidance. The findings support long-asserted gender differences in rule abidance. Contrary to recent scholarship, however, the findings suggest that rule abidance among women is inversely related to organizational status, with higher-level women abiding by rules more so than women lower in the hierarchy.