Queer eye on a ‘straight’ life: deconstructing masculinities in construction

Chan, Paul

doi:10.1080/01446193.2013.832028

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“…This pride in a 'tough job well done' was also borne out by Chan (2013). Taking an intersectional approach and researching homosexual construction workers, Chan's (2013) study found that skill overrode other potential sources of division, e.g. homosexuality and class, which once again reminds us not to overplay the salience of singular social categories.…”

Section: Valuing and Silencing Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 91%

The Institutionalization of Suffering: Embodied Inhabitation and the Maintenance of Health and Safety in E-waste Recycling

Stowell

Warren

2018

Organization Studies

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In this article, we put forward the concept of 'embodied inhabitation' to bring a bodily and material perspective to bear on institutional maintenance. Using an 'inhabited institutions' framework, and drawing on autoethnographic, visual data, we develop a strategy of empathizing with field research participants that blurs the boundaries between human and non-human, social and material, and cultural and biological in understanding the embodied micro-level, situated interactions that maintain the institutional status quo. These have hitherto been overlooked in studies of institutional maintenance and institutional theory more broadly. Empirically, we explore how organizational imperatives designed to uphold the institution of the 'safe system of work' required by health and safety law in the United Kingdom play out in the course of the everyday work of e-waste recycling workers. Three vignettes relating to an overarching theme of 'suffering' consider institutional inhabitation as micro-level embodied interactions, and we show how socio-embodied discourses of commitment, skill and (working-class) masculinities legitimate the normalization of waste workers' suffering, which in turn maintains institutionalized ideas of health and safety at work. We conclude by reflecting on the value of employing an 'embodied inhabitation' approach in other institutional settings.

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Section: Valuing and Silencing Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 91%

The Institutionalization of Suffering: Embodied Inhabitation and the Maintenance of Health and Safety in E-waste Recycling

Stowell

Warren

2018

Organization Studies

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“…These lead to another issue of interest for future research: who are the workers? Recently, we have seen a growing volume of literature of ethnographic research portraying a realistic picture of workers as authentic persons of rationality, autonomy, emotion and history of experiences in complex cultural and systemic contexts (e.g., Chan 2013, Moore 2013, Tutt et al 2013b, Shipton et al 2014). While we need more of such ethnographies for enriched understanding of the complexities involved, there is potential to draw insights from the existing ethnographies with appropriate institutional analysis.…”

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Institutions and institutional logics in construction safety management: the case of climatic heat stress

Jia

Rowlinson

Loosemore

et al. 2017

Construction Management and Economics

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We employed a Glaserian grounded theory approach to explore the gap between behavioural safety and its unsatisfactory outcomes. Data were collected through ethnographic studies on the practice of managing heat stress on thirty-six construction sites in Hong Kong and Chonqing in mainland China. Two core concepts, institutions and institutional logics, are generated and defined to explain why safety rules do not necessarily produce safety behaviours. At society level, we explicated two pairs of institutional logics: the religion logics (Confucianism vs. pragmatism) and the market logics (rational market vs. individualism). At project organisational level, two logics of processing safety in production are explicated: a protection logic in the Chongqing context and a production logic in the Hong Kong context. The concepts and sub-concepts are compared to existing business literature for clarification of scopes. Empirical findings of the study suggest safety intervention needs to redirect its focus from promoting safety alone to addressing the institutional logics of the entire organisation and its societal context practised by multiple levels of actors. We conclude that safety research would benefit from redirecting its focus of analysis from discourses, interviews or surveys to authenticated cases reconstructed through triangulation of actors' discourses at multiple levels of an organisation, third-party observation, physiological data and objective measurement of the work environment. Methodologically, this paper provides a detailed guidance for conducting grounded theory research with a focus of conceptualisation.

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“…In this sense, we could expect that more educated women directors would be more likely to show their ability by imposing their ideas leading to a relationship conflict (Petrovic, 2008). This can be especially true in settings where women generally achieve lower job positions than men, such as the construction industry (Byrne et al, 2005;de Cabo et al, 2011;Chan, 2013;Potter and Hill, 2009;Powell, 2002). Literature enlightens that relationship conflict determine tension, annoyance and animosity among group members and can negatively affect the firm performance (Simons and Peterson, 2000).…”

Section: Educated Women Directors and Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, women need to establish more credibility and legitimacy than man (Biernat and Kobrynowicz, 1997). This is especially true in settings where they generally achieve low job positions (Byrne et al, 2005;de Cabo et al, 2011;Chan, 2013;Potter and Hill, 2009;Powell, 2002). However, empirical evidence is still lacking for what concerns the influence of the educational level of women directors within a specific masculine industry in terms of board dynamics and outcomes (Petrovic, 2008).…”

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Women on board: evidence from a masculine industry

Arena

Cirillo²,

Mussolino

et al. 2015

Corporate Governance

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Purpose – This paper aims to provide insights on the gender-performance relationship, this paper studies the impact of board gender diversity on firm performance, by taking into account the “critical mass” of women directors and their educational level. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses are tested on a unique dataset of 211 European Union publicly listed companies in 2012 belonging to the construction industry from 28 different countries through a set of ordinary least squares regressions. Findings – The evidence shows that the “critical mass” rather than the simple presence of women has an incremental benefit on firm performance. In addition, results show that the educational level of women directors negatively affects firm performance, as it might impact the dynamics within the boardroom. Research limitations/implications – The quantitative nature of the study does not allow drawing strong inferences on behavioral processes and dynamics in and around the boardroom. Nevertheless, this study will open new research insights on exploring the educational level on board. Practical implications – Regulators and policymakers that should be aware of the influence of women as a group on firm performance and that this role is differential across industries. Originality/value – The novelty of this paper is that it investigates the role of women in a high masculine gender-specific industry and explores a still poorly understood demographic variable (i.e. the educational level) of women directors.

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Queer eye on a ‘straight’ life: deconstructing masculinities in construction

Cited by 33 publications

References 38 publications

The Institutionalization of Suffering: Embodied Inhabitation and the Maintenance of Health and Safety in E-waste Recycling

The Institutionalization of Suffering: Embodied Inhabitation and the Maintenance of Health and Safety in E-waste Recycling

Institutions and institutional logics in construction safety management: the case of climatic heat stress

Women on board: evidence from a masculine industry

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