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
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