Telling a supervisor about experiences of gendered dismissal: Problems of documentation, tellability, and failed authority

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Melisa Stevanovic, Antero Olakivi, Henri Nevalainen, Pentti Henttonen, Niklas Ravaja
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Difficulties of documentation characterize many problematic experiences of social interaction. Here, we study such difficulties by analyzing a case in which an employee tells her supervisor about the gendered dismissal that she has experienced at work. Using video-recorded performance appraisal interviews as data and conversation analysis and positioning analysis as methods, we examine how the experience of gendered dismissal lends itself to a documentable issue. We describe the process by which the problem that the employee initially described as an organizational leadership issue became redefined as a personal matter, which was not the responsibility of the supervisor. We show how this happened by the supervisor refraining from treating the employee's problem as “tellable” on its own terms, which led to the employee repeatedly changing her storyline. We argue that the persistence of inequalities in organizational interactions may be due to documentation difficulties, which are anchored in cultural expectations that bias the tellability of events in ways that promote gender inequality.

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告诉主管关于性别解雇的经历:文件、可说性和权威失败的问题
记录的困难是社会交往中许多问题经验的特征。在这里,我们通过分析一个案例来研究这些困难,在这个案例中,一名员工告诉她的主管她在工作中经历了性别解雇。我们使用视频记录的绩效评估访谈作为数据,并使用对话分析和定位分析作为方法,研究性别解雇的经历如何使其成为一个可记录的问题。我们描述了员工最初描述为组织领导问题的问题被重新定义为个人问题的过程,这不是主管的责任。我们展示了这种情况是如何发生的,因为主管没有按照自己的方式将员工的问题视为“可讲的”问题,这导致了员工反复改变她的故事情节。我们认为,组织互动中不平等的持续存在可能是由于记录困难,这根植于文化期望,这种期望以促进性别不平等的方式偏见事件的可诉性。
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期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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