Illusions of Opportunity : : Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality / / Sonia Ospina.
Employees expect organizations to offer an equitable distribution of rewards in promotion, compensation, and job challenge to those who work hard. According to Sonia Ospina, the realities of the workplace confound that expectation, since organizational practices oflabelling and ranking individuals c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 charts/graphs, 26 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- PART I. THE PROBLEM: A PERVASIVE GAP
- 1. Introduction: The Promise of Opportunity and the Experience of Inequality
- 2. Exploring the Nature and Impact of the Gap
- 3. The Organizational Setting
- Part II. REALITIES: DOCUMENTING PATTERNS OF OPPORTUNITY
- 4. Processes: Moving Up, Getting Paid, and Learning from Work
- 5. Outcomes and Outputs: The Consequences of Patterned Opportunity
- 6. Power and the Distribution of Rewards
- PART III. PERCEPTIONS: EXPERIENCING WORKPLACE INEQUALITY
- 7. Perceptions of Opportunity (1): Realities and Myths
- 8. Perceptions of Opportunity (2): Conflicting Definitions of Merit and the Meaning of Work
- 9. The Power of Comparisons: Perceptions of Justice and the Organizational Climate
- PART IV: REACTIONS: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF WORK ATTITUDES
- 10. Job Satisfaction
- 11. Relative Deprivation, Self-Evaluation, and Work Attitudes
- 12. Conclusions: Reactions to Stratification in the Workplace
- Appendix: Methodological Issues
- Notes
- References
- Subject Index