Outside insiders: understanding the role of contracting in the careers of managerial workers
| Autor: | Tracy Anderson, Matthew J. Bidwell |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
050208 finance business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences CAREERS CONTINGENT WORK CONTRACTING MANAGERIAL WORK Public relations Contingent work CAREERS MANAGERIAL WORK Politics Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business business CONTINGENT WORK 050203 business & management CONTRACTING |
| Popis: | We explore the role that contracting plays within the careers of managerial workers. Contracting distances workers from organizational coordination and politics, aspects of organizational life that are often central to the managerial role. Nonetheless, managerial workers make up a substantial proportion of the contracting workforce. Qualitative interviews with managerial contractors indicate that the tension between the natures of contracting and managerial work means that managerial contractors carry out substantially more bounded work than regular employees, and that this boundedness can shape the role that contracting plays in their careers. Examining the employment histories of MBA alumni of a U.S. business school, we show that workers with fewer subordinates and greater personal demands are more likely to enter contracting. We also find that contractors report better work–life balance but receive lower pay both while contracting and in subsequent regular employment. Whereas prior research has highlighted the financial benefits and temporal demands of contracting for highly skilled workers, our findings introduce important boundary conditions to our understanding of high-skill contracting: the nature of the occupation is critical. |
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