Paid time off as a vehicle for self-definition and sensemaking
β 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
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.152
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Qualitative data collected in a small manufacturing company following implementation of a new paid timeβoff policy (PTO), demonstrates how organizational members use selfβconceptions 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 microβlevel 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 microβlevel 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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