Doctoral Dissertation Research: Comparative Research on Dispute Resolution and Gender Dynamics in Worker Cooperatives and Matched Hierarchical Businesses

博士论文研究：工人合作社和匹配的层级企业中争议解决和性别动态的比较研究

• 批准号: 9801948
• 负责人: Mark Suchman
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-15 至 1999-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9801948&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Comparative; Dispute

Prior research in traditional workplaces has demonstrated that men and women manage disputes differently. However, these findings have not been replicated in more egalitarian workplaces. Worker cooperatives, in which all members both own and co-manage the workplace, are ideal sites for examining the generality of the previous findings. Existing theories offer conflicting predictions. Some assert that women will raise grievances as frequently as their male co-workers, being empowered by an egalitarian ideology. Other approaches argue that women will raise fewer grievances, being more affected than men by the cooperative ethos. Still other theories hold that women will raise more grievances, lacking the power to resolve disputes through anything other than formal action. This project will examine these hypotheses by investigating four sets of businesses. Each set consists of one worker cooperative and one traditional business, both in the same industry and with similar employee demographics. These sets range in their gender composition from mostly male to mostly female. Data are provided from interviews with a number of individual members of each organization, and hypotheses will be tested using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. In addition to examining the generality of prior research in more traditional organizations, the results should be vital to an understanding of the issues of gender, grievance resolution, and workplace dynamics in the non-hierarchical workplace.

之前在传统工作场所的研究表明，男性和女性处理纠纷的方式不同。然而，这些发现并没有在更平等的工作场所得到复制。所有成员都拥有并共同管理工作场所的工人合作社，是检验先前研究结果的一般性的理想场所。现有的理论提供了相互矛盾的预测。一些人断言，在平等主义意识形态的授权下，女性会像她们的男性同事一样频繁地提出不满。其他方法认为，女性会提出更少的不满，比男性更容易受到合作精神的影响。还有其他理论认为，女性会引发更多的不满，因为她们没有能力通过正式行动以外的任何方式来解决争端。这个项目将通过调查四组企业来检验这些假设。每套由一个工人合作社和一个传统企业组成，这两个企业都在同一行业，员工人口统计相似。这些场景的性别构成从以男性为主到以女性为主。数据来自对每个组织的一些个别成员的访谈，并将使用定性和定量相结合的方法对假设进行检验。除了检查在更传统的组织中先前研究的一般性之外，结果应该对于理解非等级工作场所中的性别、申诉解决和工作场所动态问题至关重要。