Coworker Perceptions of Outcome Fairness of Breastfeeding Accommodation in the Workplace

Seijts, Gerard

doi:10.1023/b:errj.0000038650.91466.4f

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“…The broader literature tells us that breastfeeding support can lead to co‐worker jealousy when it is perceived as favouritism (Chow et al . ; Seijts ) but this effect is suppressed within organizational cultures that widely support family‐friendly measures (Suyes et al . ).…”

Section: Management Of the Return To Workmentioning

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Maternity Management in SMEs: A Transdisciplinary Review and Research Agenda

Stumbitz

Lewis

Rouse

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper provides a transdisciplinary critical review of the literature on maternity management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), embedded within the wider literatures on maternity in the workplace. The key objectives are to describe what is known about the relations that shape maternity management in smaller workplaces and to identify research directions to enhance this knowledge. The review is guided by theory of organizational gendering and small business management, conceptualizing adaptions to maternity as a process of mutual adjustment and dynamic capability within smaller firms' informally negotiated order, resource endowments and wider labour and product/service markets. A context-sensitive lens is also applied. The review highlights the complex range of processes involved in SME maternity management and identifies major research gaps in relation to pregnancy, maternity leave and the return to work (family-friendly working and breastfeeding) in these contexts. This blind spot is surprising, as SMEs employ the majority of women worldwide. A detailed agenda for future research is outlined, building on the gaps identified by the review and founded on renewed theoretical direction.

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Section: Management Of the Return To Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternity Management in SMEs: A Transdisciplinary Review and Research Agenda

Stumbitz

Lewis

Rouse

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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“…Co-worker and supervisor attitudes sometimes vary according to their parental status and sex. Those who are parents rate accommodations for breastfeeding employees as fairer than do non-parents (Seijts, 2004) and men are sometimes more likely than women to believe that breastfeeding practices negatively affect productivity (Libbus and Bullock, 2002). Additionally, those who have utilized breastfeeding accommodations and who have had a co-worker do so hold more favorable attitudes than those who have not (Suyes et al, 2008).…”

Section: Combining Breastfeeding and Paid Labor In The Usamentioning

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‘I had the luxury . . .’: Organizational breastfeeding support as privatized privilege

Turner

Norwood

2013

Human Relations

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To make the combination of breastfeeding and work feasible, women who return to work full time in the USA need some measure of organizational breastfeeding support. Yet, many organizations do not have lactation policies in place, co-worker and supervisor communication can be discouraging, and predominant cultural Discourses in the US position breastfeeding at odds with organizational values, often requiring women to define and negotiate support themselves. Drawing upon Structuration Theory, we analyzed interviews conducted with US women who breastfed and worked to illuminate the meanings they held for breastfeeding and organizational breastfeeding support and how those meanings challenge and reproduce social systems that make breastfeeding and working a potentially difficult combination. We argue that their construction of breastfeeding support as a privatized privilege re/produces cultural Discourses that marginalize women’s bodies in organizations. In order to engender support for all bodies that challenge the borders between public/private, feminine/masculine and personal/professional, meanings must be changed at both macro and micro levels of communication.

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