Duality of language as a tool for integration versus mobility at work: utility of a polyphonic perspective

Erbil, Cihat; Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Bağlama, Sercan Hamza

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“…They highlight that such evaluations have consequences for opportunities for progression and increased status within university environments. Inherent in all these studies which demonstrate the power implications of language choices within organisations is the acknowledgement that language hierarchies exist and that some linguistic repertoires are considered to be more advantageous than others (Erbil et al, 2023). As such, conditions exist for the occurrence of injustices on the basis of language use within organisations.…”

Section: Ethics and The Language-sensitive International Business Lit...mentioning

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“…Furthermore, Erbil et al (2023) point to the need for organisations to move towards polyphonic and plurilingual approaches that recognise talent. Whilst they view this in terms of resisting exclusion and neo-colonial domination based on language, a truly polyphonic organisation would also present possibilities for reducing epistemic harms and creating more inclusive hermeneutical resources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…43), where all voices are given equal weight and do not suffer credibility deficits for their linguistic choices and linguistic presentation. To achieve this, Erbil et al (2023) suggest that organisationsand the managers within them-need to use plurilingual, culturally sensitive and responsive communication channels that include missing voices. They also suggest, in line with Ciuk et al (2023), that organisations must implement flexible HRM policies and practices which enable recruitment, retention and promotion that celebrate linguistic diversity.…”

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Although there is now a substantial body of literature exploring the effects of language diversity in international management contexts, little attention has been paid to the ethical dimensions of language diversity at work. This conceptual paper draws on the concept of epistemic injustice in order to explore how language, and in particular corporate language policies, may act as a source of epistemic injustice within the workplace. It demonstrates how language competence affects credibility judgements about a speaker, and also considers how corporate language policies can create situations of hermeneutic injustice, in which marginalised groups are denied the vocabularies to understand their own experiences. Finally, ways in which such epistemic harms can be reduced are discussed, and the possibilities for management education to create epistemically responsible managers are highlighted.

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Deinstitutionalized Careers: Intersectionality of Gender Pay Gap among Women Knowledge Workers

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2024

Sosyal Mucit Academic Review

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The purpose of this study is to explore women knowledge workers’ experiences of the intersectionality of the gender pay gap and to scrutinize the reasons behind gender pay gap. The study problematizes the gender pay gap phenomenon by using intersectionality theory. The study describes how the gender pay gap varies based on ethnical differences besides being women and reveals how this situation deinstitutionalizes women’s careers. The study employed descriptive analysis based on the qualitative research paradigm conducted in Germany and Türkiye with purposefully sampled participants. The study’s empirical material was generated through semi-structured interviews with women knowledge workers who differ in ethnicity and generally work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The study results indicated that ethnicity should be considered among other intersectional factors to analyze the gender pay gap comprehensively. The reasons behind the gender pay gap are found to be the lack of transparency in the workplace, gender-based occupational segregation, culture, the glass ceiling, the existence of male-dominated informal communication channels, and the fact that women workers are more easily preferred in organizational downsizing initiatives.

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Duality of language as a tool for integration versus mobility at work: utility of a polyphonic perspective

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Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations

Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations

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