Human RelationsPub Date : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1177/00187267241228763
Roya Derakhshan, Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Andrew Crane
{"title":"Coping with personhood limbo: Personhood anchoring work among undocumented workers in Italy","authors":"Roya Derakhshan, Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Andrew Crane","doi":"10.1177/00187267241228763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241228763","url":null,"abstract":"Prevailing socio-legal structures create a state of personhood limbo for undocumented workers, where broader society undermines various aspects of their personhood in a way that prevents them from fully representing and embracing all dimensions of their selves in and around the workplace. But how do undocumented workers cope with personhood limbo? Drawing on interviews with undocumented workers and civil society workers in Italy, we identify specific forms of what we call “personhood anchoring work” that undocumented workers engage in to claim aspects of personhood that are meaningful to them. Our theorization suggests that workers’ experiences of personhood are influenced not only by socio-legal structures, but also by their own agentic acts in response to external conditions, as well as their aspirations, past experiences, and future plans. A key finding of our study is that these practices do not aim to create or disrupt social orders, even in subtle or hidden forms of resistance. Instead, they enable undocumented workers to temporarily position themselves within the social order. In doing so, we also introduce a new way of conceptualizing the integration of undocumented workers that can account for the possibilities and limits of retaining rather than redefining personhood in the face of prevailing constraints.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139939002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1177/00187267241229344
Bernhard Resch, David Rozas
{"title":"Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity","authors":"Bernhard Resch, David Rozas","doi":"10.1177/00187267241229344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241229344","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative organising is known to burn like a rocket: it thrives on intense passion, relationality and creativity but quickly falls into pieces. This article explores the underestimated role of events and their affective atmospheres to sustain collaborative work. Drawing insights from two ethnographic field studies within an open-source software community and a network of impact entrepreneurs, we introduce the notion of ‘polyrhythmic affectivity’ at the core of polycentric governance. It encapsulates how frictional reverberances between three atmospherically experienced affective intensities – togetherness, dissonance and mutuality – are able to maintain emergent yet enduring order. We argue that the collective motivational force of collaborative organising, can be stabilised through a process of ‘affective commoning’ to sustain collaborative atmospheres as shared creative resources.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139939048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/00187267241229036
Amon Barros, Benjamin Rosenthal, Caio Coelho, Bruno Leandro
{"title":"‘Brazil must be a country for entrepreneurs and workers, not scoundrels’: Personal branding mechanisms underpinning CEO activism","authors":"Amon Barros, Benjamin Rosenthal, Caio Coelho, Bruno Leandro","doi":"10.1177/00187267241229036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267241229036","url":null,"abstract":"Chief executive officer (CEO) activism literature primarily explores issues in which CEOs engage, and its consequences for consumers and employees. However, a glaring gap lies in how CEOs engage in activism, particularly, through social media. Our study aims to bridge this gap by analyzing the online identity of Luciano Hang, a Brazilian CEO, activist, and billionaire, focusing on the crafting of Hang’s online identity, particularly on Instagram, using five personal branding mechanisms to influence broad sociopolitical issues. Hang’s unique case offers a lens for right-wing CEO activism, contrasting with mostly progressive cases in the western contexts. Using critical visual analysis to decode the Instagram content posted by Hang, who actively advocates for political conservatism, entrepreneurism, and economic liberalism, we find that CEO activists do not merely speak on specific issues, but carefully construct their online identity aligning with or challenging social norms and values. Our research extends the understanding of CEO activism by revealing its heterogeneous nature and connecting organization studies and marketing, in addition to demonstrating how CEOs can leverage personal branding to portray themselves as activists.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Into the danger-zone’: How intersubjective processes rooted in social identities shape responses to existential threats","authors":"Karan Sonpar, Federica Pazzaglia, Samir Shrivastava, Yash Garg","doi":"10.1177/00187267231219857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231219857","url":null,"abstract":"How do individuals who engage in high-risk work deal with the existential threats that are part and parcel of their daily activities? Based on a qualitative study of fighter pilots, we find that experiences and responses to existential threats are shaped by three intersubjective processes, that is, socially constructed and accepted patterns of interactions by which individuals come to view existential threats as one of several challenges of their work, something that is common yet unremarkable. These processes draw from and impinge upon cherished social identities to inculcate in individuals: (1) a preoccupation with performance as a precondition for continued membership, thereby crowding out death anxiety; (2) a willingness to withstand no-holds barred collective scrutiny, thereby keeping their egos under check, and enhancing learning and safety; and (3) a view of death as a commonplace and therefore unremarkable facet of their activities. The contribution of our study is to illuminate the intersubjective processes implicated in the development of social identities that enable individuals in high-risk work to function effectively despite the existential threats they face.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"179 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00187267231220260
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Sarah Glozer
{"title":"#Knowyourworth: How influencers commercialise meaningful work","authors":"Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Sarah Glozer","doi":"10.1177/00187267231220260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231220260","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of meaningful work have proposed that work that holds personal significance and meaning can transcend pay. But how can workers who do not want, or cannot afford, to sacrifice pay for meaning commercialise their work to realise its market worth? We explore this question in the context of social media influencers who participated in the InfluencerPayGap community (an Instagram profile established in 2020 to expose pay disparities in the influencer industry). Combining concepts of worth from the meaningful work literature with a sociological theory of valuation, we identify three enrichment narratives engaged with by influencers to circumvent expectations of performing free labour. Besides illuminating how influencers construct and connect the personal worth of their work with its market worth, we show how these narratives of authenticity, relationality and quantification involve a ‘double loop of enrichment’. Consisting in the interplay between influencers’ own sense of the worth of their work and feedback from their followers and the algorithms of social media platforms, this loop can reinforce and transform but also undermine influencers’ perceptions of the worth and meaning of their work. Our findings contribute to a greater understanding of meaningful work and the valuation of work in non-traditional work contexts.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1177/00187267231218630
Sarah Bloomfield, Clare Rigg, Russ Vince
{"title":"‘I don’t know what’s going on’: Theorising the relationship between unknowingness and distributed leadership","authors":"Sarah Bloomfield, Clare Rigg, Russ Vince","doi":"10.1177/00187267231218630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231218630","url":null,"abstract":"Surely a leader should know what to do? But what happens when complexity means they cannot know which path to take? We answer this question with an ethnographic study of distributed leadership (DL) in an organisation grappling with inherent tensions within its mission. The article makes a counter-intuitive argument for the value and utility of unknowingness, defined as a state of awareness of both an absence of knowing and one’s inability to know. Three inter-related aspects to unknowingness are developed – acceptance of not knowing, tolerance of the discomfort of not knowing, and distribution of unknowingness – leading to an innovative theory of unknowingness. We reveal how unknowingness and DL are bound with each other in the sense that not knowing can enable distribution of leadership within the organisation, whilst DL addresses challenges in complex organisations associated with not knowing. We thereby provide an illustration of the interplay between those with hierarchical authority and others dispersed throughout an organisation. In sum, we provide an alternative perspective to the heroic, all-knowing individual leader.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"36 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139442751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1177/00187267231218430
Enrico Fontana, Cedric Dawkins
{"title":"Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective","authors":"Enrico Fontana, Cedric Dawkins","doi":"10.1177/00187267231218430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231218430","url":null,"abstract":"In the developing economy of Bangladesh, local factory owners in the garment industry have felt great pressure to improve factory safety, but the costs for those improvements are not shared by the global apparel firms that wield immense influence over them. Consequently, we examine whether multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), as vehicles of corporate social responsibility (CSR), offer platforms for democratic oversight or merely serve as new arenas to exercise corporate power. Given their role in connecting global and local contexts and their history of safety incidents, local factory owners possess a unique perspective on the impact and contested nature of CSR in global supply chains. This article presents a qualitative study of MSIs in the Bangladesh garment industry, particularly after the Rana Plaza collapse. Through interviews with local factory owners and executive managers, we explore the reasons behind their opposition to CSR as exercised by global apparel firms, and the contestation of those practices by their local business association. Our findings lead us to conclude that garment industry MSIs are unlikely to be effective without labor procurement practices that harmonize global and local interests to mitigate the competitive pressures on local factory owners.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":" 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139144425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-04028-1
Anuradha Pai, Vinitha G Kaimal
{"title":"Herniation of Parotid Gland into Masseter Muscle: A Rare Case Report.","authors":"Anuradha Pai, Vinitha G Kaimal","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04028-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04028-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A herniation is the abnormal protrusion of an organ or other body structure through a defect or natural opening in a covering membrane, muscle, or bone. The parotid gland is the largest of the salivary glands, which is situated below the external acoustic meatus and overlaps the masseter muscle anteriorly. In this rare case report, a 35 years old female patient complained of pain in the cheek region for 3 years and gave a history of pain aggravating while having sour food. On palpation, multiple nodules were found bilaterally in the cheek area which was tender. Ultrasonography of the masseter and parotid region showed herniation of the lower lobe of the parotid gland into the masseter muscle which is 1 cm on the right side and 0.8 cm on the left side. The findings obtained from ultrasound images were further confirmed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).</p>","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"31 1","pages":"4083-4085"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10645919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86824866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-03901-3
Mansi A R Venkatramanan, Anilkumar S Harugop, Sneha A Sankaran
{"title":"Comparing Efficiency Epley and Semont Manoeuvre with Videonystagmography.","authors":"Mansi A R Venkatramanan, Anilkumar S Harugop, Sneha A Sankaran","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-03901-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-03901-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Videonystagmography (VNG) is useful and reliable in diagnosing vertigo. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is the most common peripheral vestibular disorder in adults, and posterior canal is the commonest canalinvolved. The treatment of choice for posterior canal BPPV is repositioning manoeuvres. Epley and Semontmanoeuvres are the two most commonly used treatment manoeuvres for the management of posterior canalBPPV. In this study, we use VNG to compare the two. Epley Repositioning Manoeuvre was found to be moreeffective than Semont Liberatory Manoeuvre.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-023-03901-3.</p>","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"65 1","pages":"3021-3026"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10645646/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86802079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1177/00187267231211847
Hai‐Jiang Wang, Peikai Li, T. Bauer, B. Erdogan
{"title":"Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement","authors":"Hai‐Jiang Wang, Peikai Li, T. Bauer, B. Erdogan","doi":"10.1177/00187267231211847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231211847","url":null,"abstract":"During organizational entry, newcomers often draw upon internal resources like coworkers and supervisors to navigate their roles. Could external interactions with customers or patients hold the key to newcomer adjustment in certain job contexts? Our study, rooted in the conservation of resources theory, identifies a critical link between mistreatment from external parties and newcomer adjustment—a connection that is explained by rumination and work engagement. Through two studies involving new nurses in China (Study 1: four-wave cross-lagged panel design, N = 181; Study 2: four-wave time-lagged design, N = 198), we uncover that mistreatment from patients results in rumination among newcomers, leading to diminished task mastery and role clarity, as mediated by reduced work engagement. This ripple effect of external mistreatment persists even when accounting for internal mistreatment (abusive supervision and coworker incivility). Our results illustrate how negative interactions with external entities can hinder newcomer adjustment—a revelation with far-reaching implications for practitioners and future research.1","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139231843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}