Male (Job) Insecurity
The long debate over whether America has gotten more economically unequal in the last few decades is over; all but the most recalcitrant acknowledge it. (As a recent New York Times story reported, sharp-eyed salesmen have acted on this reality, increasingly marketing to the top few percent.) The economic argument has now shifted to whether average Americans have nonetheless done alright even as the rich have become super-rich. Here one detects a subtle difference in vocabulary.
Why Female Managers Are in Short Supply?
It took Mary Barra more than three decades at General Motors to become the company’s first female chief executive. Even then we celebrated a woman reaching the pinnacle of her profession. The same happened again when Inga Beale became Lloyd's of London's first female CEO in the company’s 325-year history. -Article by Lisa Cohen
Study Untangles Divergent U.S. Job-Tenure Patterns
Have American jobs become less stable? Do workers change employers more frequently than in the past?
Many Americans would probably say the answer to these questions is an obvious yes. Yet, for the past few decades researchers looking at the data haven’t been so sure: average job tenure (the number of years working for the same employer) has been surprisingly stable over time.
Cross-border Business Teams and the Entertainment Arena
More and more companies are abandoning traditional organisational structures and creating cross-border teams of people who live and work thousands of miles apart.
"Unmasking the Conflicting Trends in Job Tenure by Gender in the United States, 1983-2010," American Sociological Review.
Authors: Hollister, Matissa N.; Kristin E. Smith
Publication: American Sociological Review (Forthcoming)
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"Whose Jobs Are These? The Impact of the Proportion of Female Managers on the Number of New Management Jobs Filled by Women versus Men," Administrative Science Quarterly
Authors: Cohen, Lisa E.; Broschak, Joseph P.
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
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"Pursuing Career Success while Sustaining Personal and Family Well-Being: A Study of Reduced-Load Professionals over Time," Journal of Social Issues
Authors: Hall, Douglas T. Hall; Lee, Mary Dean; Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Heras, Mireia Las
Publication: Journal of Social Issues, December 2012
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"Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers," Organization Science
Authors: Barbulescu, Roxana; Bidwell, Matthew
Publication: Organization Science, May-June 2013
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"Friend or Foe? The Effects of Contingent Employees on Standard Employees' Work Attitudes," The International Journal of Human Resources Management
Authors: Banerjee, Mallika; Tolbert, Pamela S,; DiCiccio, Thomas
Publication: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012
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Success Is What You Make It
What is success and how do you measure it? The experiences of a diversegroup of workers show how – and how much – they managed to balance career success with family responsibilities. Those who managed to strike the balance defined success on their own terms, had a strong sense of self and wereprepared to make trade-offs.
"The use of favors by emerging market managers: Facilitator or inhibitor of international expansion?," Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Authors: Puffer, Sheila M.; McCarthy, Daniel J.; Jaeger, Alfred M.; Dunlap, Denise
Publication: Asia Pacific Journal of Management, June 2013
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"Reinventing Retirement: New Pathways, New Arrangements, New Meanings," Human Relations
Authors: Sargent, Leisa; Lee, Mary Dean; Martin, Bill; Zikic, Jelena
Publication: Human Relations, January 2013
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"Assembling Jobs: A Model of How Tasks Are Bundled Into and Across Jobs," Organization Science
Author: Cohen, Lisa
Publication: Organization Science, March/April 2013
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Professor Lisa Cohen awarded a SSHRC Connections Grant
Prof. Lisa Cohen was awarded a SSHRC Connections Grant for her project “The structure and structuring of work within and across organization.” Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating.
