Three papers examining how employees and audiences understand and evaluate occupations
department or school: Business, Sauder School of
department or school: Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, Division of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Frické, Pascale Haworth
issued: 2024-04-11T20:43:58Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Extant research on how employees and audiences understand and evaluate occupations encounters multiple challenges, including a narrow focus on group-level processes within occupational communities that often neglects employees’ daily work experiences and a lack of theoretical and methodological diversity. This dissertation comprises three papers that address these challenges and offer novel insights into how employees assess and find meaning in their occupations, as well as how they are affected by others’ evaluations of their occupations. The first paper employs qualitative methods to examine how occupational ideologies shape employees’ understandings of their work. Management scholars traditionally conceptualize occupational ideologies as a positive resource for work meaningfulness. In contrast, this study reveals that occupational ideologies can be untethered from daily work realities, producing a disconnect that threatens, rather than enhances, employees’ experience of work meaningfulness. It further develops a process model to understand how employees negotiate this disconnect, thereby advancing the literatures on occupational ideologies and meaningful work. The subsequent papers pivot to exploring audience evaluations of occupations and their impact on employees. The literature on social evaluations of occupations concentrates on employees’ reactions to situations when a critical mass of outsiders share a negative or positive view of their occupation, and, in particular, whether employees accept or reject these evaluations. This approach overlooks two crucial details. First, employees’ work experiences are more directly shaped by explicit outsider evaluations than by overarching societal attitudes. Second, the impact of these evaluations extends beyond employees’ mere acceptance or rejection of them and their associated identity work. Consequently, the second paper develops two measurement scales for employees to quantify their exposure to enacted negative occ…
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note: THREE PAPERS EXAMINING HOW EMPLOYEES AND AUDIENCES UNDERSTAND AND EVALUATE OCCUPATIONS by Pascale Haworth Frické M.S. Utrecht University, 2016 B.S. University of Arizona, 2011 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Business Administration - Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2024 © Pascale Haworth Frické, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Three Papers Examining How Employees and Audiences Understand and Evaluate Occupations submitted by Pascale Haworth Frické in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration - Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Examining Committee: Danielle van Jaarsveld, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Supervisor Sandra Robinson, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Supervisory Committee Member Lingtao Yu, Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Supervisory Committee Member Jessica Tracy, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia University Examiner Dale Griffin, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia University Examiner Additional Supervisory Committee Members: Alicia Grandey, Professor, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Extant research on how employees and audiences understand and evaluate occupations encounters multiple challenges, including a narrow focus on group-level processes within occupational communities that often neglects employees’ daily work experiences and a lack of theoretical and methodological diversity. This dissertation compr…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441302
language: eng
degree discipline: Business Administration - Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Van Jaarsveld, Danielle Dorice
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87762