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- catalog abstract "Employees expect organizations to offer an equitable distribution of rewards in promotion, compensation, and job challenge to those who work hard. According to Sonia Ospina, the realities of the workplace confound that expectation, since organizational practices of labelling and ranking individuals create inequality. For this reason, Ospina suggests that an appreciation of how employees experience and resolve the contradiction between expectation and reality in prerequisite to understanding work attitudes in contemporary organizations. Illusions of Opportunity documents the pervasiveness of this contradiction by focusing on three groups of workers within a large public organization in a major city. Exploring individual and collective attempts to make sense of reward distribution, Ospina found that each group endorsed a different definition of merit. The definitions represented an attempt on the part of each group to justify the claims of its own members to being organizational citizens who deserved recognition. Drawing on the research traditions of organizational stratification, the social psychology of justice, and organizational behavior, Ospina operates within a conceptual framework that links objective opportunity structures to employees' subjective perceptions of justice. Through this merger of the structural and the subjective, she provides new insights into the social basis of work attitudes.".
- catalog contributor b9191079.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Employees expect organizations to offer an equitable distribution of rewards in promotion, compensation, and job challenge to those who work hard. According to Sonia Ospina, the realities of the workplace confound that expectation, since organizational practices of labelling and ranking individuals create inequality. For this reason, Ospina suggests that an appreciation of how employees experience and resolve the contradiction between expectation and reality in prerequisite to understanding work attitudes in contemporary organizations.".
- catalog description "Illusions of Opportunity documents the pervasiveness of this contradiction by focusing on three groups of workers within a large public organization in a major city. Exploring individual and collective attempts to make sense of reward distribution, Ospina found that each group endorsed a different definition of merit. The definitions represented an attempt on the part of each group to justify the claims of its own members to being organizational citizens who deserved recognition. Drawing on the research traditions of organizational stratification, the social psychology of justice, and organizational behavior, Ospina operates within a conceptual framework that links objective opportunity structures to employees' subjective perceptions of justice. Through this merger of the structural and the subjective, she provides new insights into the social basis of work attitudes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The Problem: A Pervasive Gap -- pt. II. Realities: Documenting Patterns of Opportunity -- pt. III. Perceptions: Experiencing Workplace Inequality -- pt. IV. Reactions: The Social Context of Work Attitudes.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 270 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0875463568 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0875463576 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "331.13/3/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in employment United States.".
- catalog subject "HD4903.5.U58 O85 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The Problem: A Pervasive Gap -- pt. II. Realities: Documenting Patterns of Opportunity -- pt. III. Perceptions: Experiencing Workplace Inequality -- pt. IV. Reactions: The Social Context of Work Attitudes.".
- catalog title "Illusions of opportunity : employee expectations and workplace inequality / Sonia Ospina.".
- catalog type "text".