The Role of Workplaces in Changing Conventional Definitions of Ideal Workers

工作场所在改变理想员工的传统定义方面的作用

• 批准号: 1756831
• 负责人: Youngjoo Cha
• 金额: $ 24.49万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756831&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Workplaces; Changing; Conventional; Definitions

Workers have increasingly been expected to work long hours in American workplaces, yet doing so carries negative consequences for their health and family life. This overwork culture stems from the expectation that ideal workers should put work before family and demonstrate unlimited and undivided commitment to work. This norm may be especially problematic for American women, whose time availability is more likely to be limited by caregiving responsibilities. This study investigates this ideal worker norm, and the conditions under which the norm might change. The project studies organizational policies that allow time off and flexibility in work schedules and locations, as well as conditions under which these policies are implemented. It also investigates female managerial representation in the organization, which may be important for organizational adoption of new policies to help women in the workplace. The project will also examine how these organizational conditions affect employee outcomes, such as employee assessment of their fit to the ideal worker norm, and their careers and health. This project shows how changes in the overwork culture may be possible in contemporary American workplaces.The project conducts a nationally representative, probability-based survey of employees and then matches employee data to organization-level data drawn from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) EEO-1 database. EEO-1 data offer workplace gender and race composition at the establishment level, as well as basic workplace characteristics, such as industry and establishment size. This linked employee-employer data will allow examination of how the ideal worker norm varies by workplace characteristics, and how different organizational conditions influence employee outcomes while controlling for other organizational characteristics. The probability-based employee sample allows findings to generalize to employed adults working in medium to large organizations in the United States. The employee-employer linked data set will provide a unique opportunity to address questions that span the individual and the organization-level, and in identifying the macro conditions that may reshape the ideal worker norm and its impact on individual workers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在美国的工作场所，人们越来越希望工人长时间工作，但这样做会对他们的健康和家庭生活产生负面影响。 这种过度工作文化源于理想的工作者应该把工作放在家庭之前，并表现出对工作的无限和不可分割的承诺。这一标准对美国女性来说可能尤其成问题，因为她们的时间更有可能受到双重责任的限制。本研究探讨了这种理想的工人规范，以及规范可能发生变化的条件。 该项目研究允许休假和灵活安排工作时间和地点的组织政策，以及执行这些政策的条件。 它还调查了妇女在组织中的管理代表性，这对组织采取新政策帮助妇女在工作场所可能很重要。该项目还将研究这些组织条件如何影响员工的成果，例如员工对他们是否适合理想的工人规范的评估，以及他们的职业和健康。该项目展示了当代美国工作场所的过度工作文化可能发生的变化。该项目对员工进行了具有全国代表性的基于概率的调查，然后将员工数据与从平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）EEO-1数据库中提取的组织级数据进行了匹配。EEO-1数据提供了机构一级工作场所的性别和种族构成，以及工作场所的基本特征，如行业和机构规模。这种关联的企业-雇主数据将允许检查理想的工人规范如何因工作场所特征而变化，以及不同的组织条件如何影响员工的结果，同时控制其他组织特征。 基于概率的员工样本允许调查结果推广到在美国大中型组织工作的成年雇员。企业-雇主关联数据集将提供一个独特的机会来解决跨越个人和组织层面的问题，并确定可能重塑理想工人规范及其对个人工人的影响的宏观条件。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。