CAREER: Characterizing Gendered Socialization of Newcomer Engineers to Promote Inclusive Practices and Retention of a Diverse Workforce

职业：描绘新人工程师的性别社会化特征，以促进包容性实践和保留多元化的劳动力

基本信息

批准号：
1929727
负责人：
Kacey Beddoes
金额：
$ 50.42万
依托单位：
San Jose State University Foundation
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：
2018-08-30 至 2023-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1929727&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Characterizing Gendered Socialization Newcomer

项目摘要

There is a pressing need to understand the high rates of attrition from engineering careers, particularly within the first five to ten years of employment. According to the scientific literature, no existing research has systematically examined the gendered organizational socialization experiences of newcomer men and women engineers. Accordingly, this project examines gendered organizational socialization of newcomer engineers. It begins the long-term work of developing processes of acculturation to the engineering profession that are compatible with intersecting non-normative identities, by creating an empirically-supported and engineering-specific model of gendered socialization. The integrated education and research plan is likely to yield a dramatic impact on the field of engineering education by prioritizing the importance of underutilized gender theories, enrolling men in gender research and systems change, and addressing the gap in research on engineering workplaces. Ultimately, this project facilitates greater equality in the socialization of newcomer engineers to decrease attrition from engineering careers and broaden participation of underrepresented groups in engineering. The objectives of this project are to develop a theoretical model of gendered socialization in civil engineering workplaces and to create research-based interventions for more inclusive socialization. Mixed-methods data will be collected longitudinally over four years, through twice-monthly Individual Socialization Logs (a new instrument developed during the course of this project) and twice-yearly in-depth interviews with thirty diverse newcomer engineers from around the country. Expected project outcomes include identification and characterization of facets of organizational socialization (e.g., practices, processes, relationships and social networks) that are gendered, including how they are gendered intersectionally (i.e., varying across other types of identity, such as race). The research findings and the model created from them are being utilized to create professional formation materials for graduating civil engineering students and civil engineering professionals. Materials are also being implemented nationally and locally in capstone design courses and workshops for engineering companies. Further, this project contributes, simultaneously, to the fields of engineering education, engineering studies, organizational studies, and gender studies.

迫切需要了解工程职业的高消耗率，尤其是在就业的前五到十年内。根据科学文献，没有现有的研究系统地研究了新手男女工程师的性别组织社会化经验。因此，该项目研究了新移民工程师的性别组织社会化。它开始为工程专业发展提供适应过程的长期工作，这些过程与与非规范身份相兼容的工程专业，通过创建一种经验支持的性别社会化模型，是通过建立经验支持的特定于工程学的模型。综合教育和研究计划可能通过优先考虑未充分利用性别理论的重要性，使男性参与性别研究和系统变化，并解决工程工作场所的研究差距，从而对工程教育领域产生巨大影响。最终，该项目促进了新移民工程师社会化的更大平等，以减少工程职业的流失，并扩大代表性不足的团体在工程中的参与。该项目的目标是在土木工程工作场所开发一个理论上的社会化模型，并创建基于研究的干预措施，以进行更具包容性的社会化。混合方法数据将在四年内纵向收集，通过两次单独的社会化日志（在本项目过程中开发的一种新工具），并每年对来自全国各地的三十多种新手工程师进行了两次深度访谈。预期的项目成果包括对组织社会化方面的识别和表征，例如，性别的实践，过程，关系和社交网络），包括如何在相交中性别性别（即，在其他类型的身份，例如种族）上进行性别性别。研究发现及其创建的模型被用于创建专业的编队材料，以旨在毕业的土木工程学生和土木工程专业人士。材料还在全国和本地在工程公司的顶峰设计课程和研讨会上实施。此外，该项目同时贡献了工程教育，工程研究，组织研究和性别研究领域。