Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Sessions and Roundtables 

Monday and Tuesday August 9 & 10, 2021 

OOW Business Meeting Tuesday, August 10, 2:30 to 3:00pm EDT

Organizers

Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 
Sharla N. Alegria, University of Toronto 
Nicole Genevieve Denier, University of Alberta 
Jiwook Jung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa 
Argun Saatcioglu, University of Kansas 
Angelina Grigoryeva, University of Toronto 

Program in Brief

Sessions: 

Organizational and Occupational Community, Culture, and Change 
Mon, August 9, 11:00am to 12:25pm EDT  

Precarity and Downward Mobility 
Mon, August 9, 12:45 to 2:10pm EDT  

Pay and Promotion, Determining Rewards, and Factors Shaping Career Outcomes
Mon, August 9, 4:15 to 5:40pm EDT  

Broadening the Conversation about Racism in Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section I
Tue, August 10, 11:00am to 12:25pm EDT 

Broadening the Conversation about Racism in Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section II
Tue, August 10, 12:45 to 2:10pm EDT 

Roundtables: 

Tue, August 10, 3:00 to 3:55pm EDT 

Table 1. Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Crises Times 
Table 2. Gender and Work – 1 
Table 3. Gender and Work – 2 
Table 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Work 
Table 5. Well-Being in the Workplace 
Table 6. Inequality and Work 
Table 7. White-Collar and Nonstandard work 
Table 8. Organizational Success and Employment Relations

 

Program in Detail

OOW Sessions 

Organizational and Occupational Community, Culture, and Change 
Mon, August 9, 11:00am to 12:25pm EDT  

Presider: Jiwook Jung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Can We Change the Overwork Culture? Workplace Policies and the Ideal Worker Norm – Youngjoo Cha,  Indiana University-Bloomington; Kristin Kelley, Indiana University-Bloomington; Elizabeth Hirsh,  University of British Columbia 

Civic (Dis)embeddedness: Professionalism Shapes the Social and Systemic Integration of Urban Civil  Society Organizations – Christof Brandtner, University of Chicago; Krystal Laryea, Stanford University

From ‘State of Exception’ to ‘New Normal’: Crisis and Change in Organizations – Alexandra E. Brewer,  Wake Forest University 

Institutional Persistence, Change, and Agency: The Case of Air Traffic Control – Diane Vaughan, Columbia  University

Ties That Bind or Ties That Free? Core-Periphery Collaboration and Identity Shifting in US Hollywood  Films – Demetrius Lewis, Emory University; Ruo Jia, Stanford GSB 

Precarity and Downward Mobility 
Mon, August 9, 12:45 to 2:10pm EDT  

Presider: Nicole Denier, University of Alberta 

Downward Mobility and Working Selves – Lindsey McKay Ibanez, Washburn University; Steven H. Lopez,  Ohio State University 

Low-skilled Occupations Face the Highest Re-skilling Pressure – Di Tong, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology; Lingfei Wu, University of Pittsburgh; James A. Evans, University of Chicago

Managing Algorithms: The Partial Automation of Middle Management and its Implications for Gig  Worker – Diana Enriquez, Princeton University; Janet Vertesi, Princeton University 

‘Tag Your Loves…Carrying a Heavy Load’: Multi-Level Marketing and Gendered Neoliberalization of  Interpersonal Relationships – Nicole Cochran, Temple University 

Unemployment Experts: Governing the Job Search in the New Economy – Patrick Sheehan, University of Texas  at Austin 

Pay and Promotion, Determining Rewards, and Factors Shaping Career Outcomes
Mon, August 9, 4:15 to 5:40pm EDT  

Presider: Ronit Dinovitzer, University of Toronto 

From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: The Evolution of Pay-setting Practices since the 1950s – Laura Adler, Harvard University 

Still a Man’s World? How Workplace Hegemonic Masculinity Drives Lawyer’s Wages – Andreea  Mogosanu and Ronit Dinovitzer, University of Toronto 

Structural legacies and the motherhood penalty: How past societal contexts shape mothers’ employment  preferences and outcomes – Malte Reichelt, New York University; Matthias Collischon,  Institute for Employment Research; Andreas Eberl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

The Gendered Consequences of Flexible Work Policies – Vanessa Conzon, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology; Duanyi Yang, Cornell University; Dongwoo Park, Cornell University; Erin Kelly,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

The Road to Equity: How Do Workplace Policies Affect Gender and Class Differences in Promotions? Anne Kathrin Kronberg, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Anna Gerlach, Goethe University 

Broadening the Conversation about Racism in Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section I
Tue, August 10, 11:00am to 12:25pm EDT  

Presider: Victor Ray, University of Iowa 

Getting in: The Racialized Legitimation Strategies of Black Tech Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and  Atlanta – Alicia Sheares, University of California, Berkeley 

In the Name of Love: Whiteness, Emotion Work, and Resource Distribution in Organizations – Sarah H. Diefendorf, Scholars Strategy Network; C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon 

Mathematically Maintained Inequality: Racialized Organizations and Selective Organizational Change – Cassidy Puckett, Emory University; Brian Gravel, Tufts University 

“Their Accent Is Just Too Much”: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in Public Radio Production – Laura Garbes,  Brown University 

This Is Why I Leave: Race and Voluntary Turnover – Adina Sterling, Stanford University 

Broadening the Conversation about Racism in Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section II
Tue, August 10, 12:45 to 2:10pm EDT 

Presider: Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan 

“In a White Man’s Place”: White Responses to Non-White Occupational Mobility in three US Cities,  1890-1910 – Joseph Jewell, Texas A&M University-College Station

Interrogating Whiteness in Organizational Diversity Initiatives – Melissa Victoria Abad, Stanford  University; Ethel L. Mickey, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Race-Conscious and Unconscious Holistic Admissions: Racialized Organizations Managing Selective  College Access- OiYan Poon, The Spencer Foundation 

Racialized Definition of Compliance with Organizational Policy: The Case of Community Policing – Jungmyung Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces – Tsedale Mekete Melaku, CUNY-Graduate  Center 

Inequality Across “Diverse” Workplaces 
Tue, August 10, 4:15 to 5:40pm EDT 

Presider: Sharla N. Alegria, University of Toronto 

Are Organizational Gender Diversity Management Practices Effective?- Sanjana Singh, Eva Jaspers, and  Tanja van der Lippe, Utrecht University 

Doing Diversity Like an Ideal High-Tech Worker: Avoiding and Making Compromises About Claims on  Diversity – Annika M. Wilcox, North Carolina State University 

Maverick Management: Uneven Accountability in Performances of Trust – Sarah Elizabeth Mosseri,  University of Virginia 

Two-Tiered Labor Market and the “Glass Moving Walkway:” Gender, Job Mobility, Segregation, and  Wages – Emma Williams-Baron, Stanford University 

Will it be #MeToo? Occupational Choices and the Specter of Sexual Harassment – Emma Tsurkov,  Stanford University 

OOW Roundtables 

Tue, August 10, 3:00 to 3:55pm EDT 

Table 1. Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Crises Times 

Categories and Crisis: Definitions of Essential in the COVID-19 Pandemic. – Joshua M. Hurwitz, Stanford  University 

Essential but Ill-Prepared: Mental Health Effects among Grocery Store Workers during COVID-19’s First Wave in Arizona. – Brian Mayer, University of Arizona; Mona Arora, University of Arizona; Sabrina Helm,  University of Arizona; Melissa Barnett, University of Arizona 

Meat Racism During SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in 2020. – Moses Seenarine 

Priming and Resonance Institute Institution in Crisis Practice. – Yuanhao Liu, Nothwestern University; Xiao Tang,  Tsinghua University 

Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Gender and Race Differences in Emotional Labor. – Catherine White  Berheide, Skidmore College; David A. Cotter, Union College; Megan Carpenter, Saint Lawrence  University 

Why Zoom Is Not Doomed Yet: Privacy and Security Crisis Response in the COVID-19 Pandemic. – Wenhong  Chen, University of Texas-Austin; Yuan Zou 

Work and Family Conflict for Parents in Professional Occupations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. – Angela  Clague, University of California, Los Angeles; Chaitra Hardison, RAND 

Table 2. Gender and Work – 1 

Access to Work-Family Resources in the Gender-Segregated Labor Market. – Kaitlin Johnson, Indiana University Cohort Differences in the Effect of Children and Domestic Labor on Women’s Labor Outcomes. – Angela Clague,  University of California, Los Angeles 

Constraints or Commitment? Insider Partners and the Mobility of Women Out of Low-Wages. – Michael A  Schultz, University of Texas-Austin 

Female Perceptions of Bias and Obstacles Toward Advancement in the Department of Defense. – Dianna Lynn  Black, University of Phoenix

From Organization Men to Career Men: Job Choice as Career Crafting. – Dominika Kinga Sarnecka, Harvard  University 

Table 3. Gender and Work – 2 

Gender and Success in Gaining Future “Gigs”: The Social Networks of Film Composers in Hollywood, 2000- 2009. – Ju Hyun Park, Emory University 

Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Earnings in 26 European Countries. – Jule Adriaans, German  Institute for Economic Research; Matteo Targa, German Institute for Economic Research

Gendered Work Experiences in a Hyper-Masculine Organization: Differences Between Cohorts. – Chelli  Plummer, Providence College 

The Unequal Joy of Cooking: Sex Discrimination in Cook’s Wages. – Jessie Himmelstern, University of  Minnesota 

Within occupational gender-segregation: Dynamics of competition between sub-occupations shape and re-shape  job queues. – Livia Baer-Bositis, Stanford University 

Table 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Work 

Enduring Racism: The Persistence of Racial Inequality in American Law Firms. – Vitor Dias, Indiana University Bloomington 

Racialized Expertise and the Character of Organizations: The Case of University DEI Personnel. – Sandra  Portocarrero, Columbia University 

Racializing Institutional Boundaries: The Case of the CHAZ/CHOP. – Aliyah Turner, University of Washington;  Maxine Wright, University of Washington 

“So, You Are the Wise Latina They Hired”: Workplace Discrimination in the Legal Profession. – Fitore Hyseni,  Syracuse University; Fatma Altunkol Wise, Syracuse University 

“Trump Gave Them Wings”: Immployment, Legal Status, Citizenship, and Racism on La Esquina. – Nancy  Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University-College Station; Cynthia Luz Cisneros Franco, Texas A&M  University 

Table 5. Well-Being in the Workplace 

Algorithmic Management, Nonstandard Schedules, and Gig Worker Wellbeing. – Katherine Hill, University of  Texas 

Avoiding, Resisting, Enduring: Responses to Workplace Violence in Professional Kitchens. – Ellen T. Meiser,  University of Hawaii at Manoa; Eli R. Wilson, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque

Sociability Between Coworkers and Social Fit at Work. – Thomas Lyttelton, Yale University

Student Culture and the Normalization of Deviance in an Allopathic Medical School. – Judson G. Everitt, Loyola  University-Chicago; James M Johnson, Loyola University Chicago; William H Burr, Loyola University  Chicago; Stephanie H Shanower, Loyola University Chicago 

The pain and possibility of departure: How experiences of meaningful work shape leader exit. – Krystal Laryea,  Stanford University; Elizabeth Trinh, University of Michigan 

Tradeoffs in the Spotlight: The impact of creative core residence on artists’ career satisfaction. – Adam Kaelin  Schoenbachler, Vanderbilt University 

Table 6. Inequality and Work 

Empathy as a Tool for Inclusion in Organizations. – Christianne Corbett, Stanford University Employment and Unemployment Among Refugees in the United States. – Mehr Mumtaz, Ohio State University;  Katherine Sobering, University of North Texas; Vincent J. Roscigno, Ohio State University

Inequality in medical education and implications for trainees’ career plans: an intersectional approach. – Alyssa  Browne, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

Managing Power Dependence to Innovate Diversity Work: Tailor-Made versus Turnkey Institutional Practices. – Vic Marsh, University of Colorado Boulder 

Occupational Specialization as a Roadblock to Professionalization. – Lisa M. Lipscomb, The New School for  Social Research 

Who gets a back door to success?: Informal processes and the reproduction of inequality at work. – Britiny Cook,  Stanford University; Erin Macke, Stanford University; Shannon Gilmartin, Stanford University 

Table 7. White-Collar and Nonstandard work 

Getting a Job in the Arts. Merit, Mindset and Network in Precarious and Taste-Based Markets. – Anna Gromada,  Sciences Po 

Interprofessional collaboration and boundary-work Care support workers in residential homes for the elderly in  Germany – Isabelle Zinn, University of Lausanne 

Making Bad Jobs Worthwhile: How Educational Trajectories Shape Low-Status Workers’ Identity Work  Strategies. – Yingjian Liang, Indiana University 

Not Over ‘til it’s Over: Interorganizational Relationship Resilience in the Contingent Staffing Industry. – Laureen  K. O’Brien, Independent Researcher 

Telework in a Land of Overwork: It’s Not that Simple, Or Is It?. – Hiroshi Ono, Hitotsubashi University Business  School 

The White-Collar Opt-Out. – Mustafa Yavas, New York University-Abu Dhabi 

Table 8. Organizational Success and Employment Relations 

From Dictator to Educator: The Emergence of a New Management Style in Global Fine Dining. – Daphne  DemetryMcGill University; Gillian Gualtieri, Vanderbilt University 

Head in the Books, Heart on the Beat: Understanding College Students’ Motivations for Entering Policing. – Nidia Isabel Banuelos, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jordan Waldron, University of Indianapolis;  Laura Zinkan, University of Indianapolis; Samantha Hupp, University of Indianapolis 

Latent Structure and Observed Structure of Employment Relations: A Network Approach. – Xingyun Wu, Johns  Hopkins University 

Lexicons into Categories: A Computational Approach to Category-Spanning Identity in Organizational Fields. – Zhuofan Li, University of Arizona 

Locating Decline and Growth of Civic Associations in Communities: The Case of the YMCA, 1950-2000. – David C Joseph-Goteiner, University of California, Berkeley 

Network Embeddedness and Team Collaboration in the GitHub Community. – Chao Liu, North Carolina State  University