Giving Meaning to Everyday Work After Terrorism

Kent, Derin

doi:10.1177/0170840618765582

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“…Scholars also suggest that companies can help the community endure and overcome the environmental disruptions by providing jobs that affirm employees' professional identity, provide a sense of normality, and supply financial resources (Kent, 2019;Weick, 1993). Effective management of frontline relief workers is another important area where SHRM scholarship can provide useful insights.…”

Section: Shrm To Help Communities Better Deal With Environmental Disr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars also suggest that companies can help the community endure and overcome the environmental disruptions by providing jobs that affirm employees' professional identity, provide a sense of normality, and supply financial resources (Kent, 2019; Weick, 1993). When individuals are struck by a disaster, they turn to social units that represent safety and stability in their minds, such as family, friends, and colleagues.…”

Section: Environmental Disruptions and Hrmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strategic human resource management in the era of environmental disruptions

Kim

Vaiman

Sanders³

2022

Human Resource Management

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This article—which serves as an introduction to the special issue of the role of (strategic) human resource management (HRM) in the era of environmental disruptions—summarizes previous research, introduces articles related to this special issue, and provides suggestions for future research in the area. This special issue intends to advance HRM research by putting it in the context of disruptive environments, aiming to deepen our theoretical and empirical knowledge about the role of HRM in these disruptive environments, and provide insights to managers and policymakers who must deal with current as well as future disruptions in extra‐organizational environments. The different sections of this introductory paper are structured from the perspective of an individual (“How can HRM help individual employees cope with environmental disruptions?”), an organization (“How can HRM help organizations be more resilient against environmental disruptions?”), and a community/societal perspective (“How can HRM help the community being affected by environmental disruptions?”). We conclude by proposing several research ideas and practical implications for human resource professionals that would enable them to deal with individual employees, their organization, and the community in times of environmental disruptions.

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Section: Shrm To Help Communities Better Deal With Environmental Disr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars also suggest that companies can help the community endure and overcome the environmental disruptions by providing jobs that affirm employees' professional identity, provide a sense of normality, and supply financial resources (Kent, 2019; Weick, 1993). When individuals are struck by a disaster, they turn to social units that represent safety and stability in their minds, such as family, friends, and colleagues.…”

Section: Environmental Disruptions and Hrmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic human resource management in the era of environmental disruptions

Kim

Vaiman

Sanders³

2022

Human Resource Management

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“…This employee focus was likely perceived as supportive and personally nurturing. Other studies have emphasized the importance of efforts to improve job satisfaction and/or performance in the postdisaster workplace, specifically mentioning compassionate leadership and response to employee needs, 31,32 understanding and support for employees' return to work, 22,33 helping employees develop positive meaning in the postdisaster workplace, 34 and provision of professional development in the workplace. 35 An important strength of this study was the variability across the participating companies regarding proximity to Ground Zero, comparing employees of companies within the WTC towers with employees of companies in other locations in the area.…”

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Employee Job Satisfaction and Performance in Association With Workplace Responses to the 9/11 Attacks on New York City's World Trade Center

Miu¹,

Davis²,

Raitt³

et al. 2021

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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Objective: Research is needed on disaster-affected workplaces, particularly on employee job satisfaction and performance, to inform workplace responses promoting employee postdisaster adjustment and wellbeing. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from a volunteer sample of 255 employees of eight workplaces affected by the 9/11 attacks on New York City's World Trade Center nearly 3 years post disaster. Results: The effects of 9/11 on both job satisfaction and job performance were more negative than positive, especially for the Ground Zero employees. Effects on job satisfaction and job performance were generally congruent. Workplace responses focused on individual needs were perceived as positive and those focused on workplace needs as negative. Conclusions: Workplace responses focused on business improvement intended to improve workplace performance may not have the desired effect and may reduce employee job satisfaction and performance.

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“…The premise turns extant interest in meaning and work organization (e.g. Kent, 2019) to the organization of meaning, including that of work and its organizations. Using a multi-faceted approach, the essay outlines challenges in this (re)organization (Table 1).…”

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The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme

Riad

2023

Organization Studies

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As scholars on organization, we have been confronting the challenges of a changing episteme. The arrival of a new coronavirus and its devastating pandemic compel us to ask what the virus means for organization studies. The essay contributes to this endeavor by attending to the implication of the virus in the (re)organization of meaning and by explicating the ways in which metaphor and metonymy enable one to trace challenges in this (re)organization. In doing so, it takes inspiration from, and contributes to, the theme of (in)visibility that is central to X & Organization Studies. The multifaceted approach is rendered through “spectrographies”, texts that craft haunting experiences of epistemic fragmentation into organizational knowledge. The essay unfolds through four sessions that engage with meaning across analogy, ontology, epistemology, and relationality. Each session offers a double reading of its respective dynamics. The first reading outlines challenges in the (re)organization of meaning by (re)engaging with the virus metaphor and its relevance to organization studies. The second reading approaches the virus through metonymy, a trope that is often overlooked. It contributes to organization by tracing objects and subjects through metonymies of materialization and identification. It shows how humans not only wrestle with a pathogen, but also with the self and with other people. Together, the four sessions illustrate how metaphor and metonymy alert us to epistemic disruptions and instabilities associated with the virus. Altogether, the essay contributes to organization studies by turning the interest in meaning and organization to the organization of meaning. It also extends knowledge on tropes in organization by showing how the virus is rendered more powerful through metonymy than it ever was as metaphor. For organization studies to attend to the virus effectively, it must contend with its inherent undecidability. In closing, the essay frames an agenda for organizational scholarship.

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Giving Meaning to Everyday Work After Terrorism

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

Strategic human resource management in the era of environmental disruptions

Strategic human resource management in the era of environmental disruptions

Employee Job Satisfaction and Performance in Association With Workplace Responses to the 9/11 Attacks on New York City's World Trade Center

The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme

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