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Paid time off as a vehicle for self-definition and sensemaking

✍ Scribed by Lucy R. Ford; Karen Locke


Book ID
102386254
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
144 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-3796

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

Qualitative data collected in a small manufacturing company following implementation of a new paid time‐off policy (PTO), demonstrates how organizational members use self‐conceptions in sensemaking about that policy. In turn, how they understand the policy results in application and enactment that is inconsistent with the intentions of the management team. Informed by the symbolic interactionist school of thought, we provide a micro‐level examination of the introduction of the policy, an examination of the processes by which these definitions of self and others are drawn upon and advanced, and an explication of the micro‐level processes by which the policy is implemented and responded to in ways other than those intended by its designers and promoters. Copyright Β© 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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