Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality.

Autor/inn/en	Nelson, Laura K.; Brewer, Alexandra; Mueller, Anna S.; O'Connor, Daniel M.; Dayal, Arjun; Arora, Vineet M.
Titel	Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Sich die Zeit nehmen: Die Auswirkungen der Arbeitsplatzbewertung auf die Ungleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern in Unternehmen.
Quelle	In: American sociological review, 88 (2023) 4, S. 627-655Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224; 1939-8271
DOI	10.1177/00031224231184264
Schlagwörter	Frau; Arbeitsanalyse; Personalbeurteilung; Arbeitsverteilung; Beruflicher Aufstieg; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Assistenzarzt; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Qualität; Zeitverwendung; Arzt; Mann; Vorgesetzter; USA
Abstract	"Gendered differences in workload distribution, in particular who spends time on low-promotability workplace tasks-tasks that are essential for organizations yet do not typically lead to promotions-contribute to persistent gender inequalities in workplaces. We examined how gender is implicated in the content, quality, and consequences of one low-promotability workplace task: assessment. By analyzing real-world behavioral data that include 33,456 in-the-moment numerical and textual evaluations of 359 resident physicians (subordinates) by 285 attending physicians (superordinates) in eight U.S. hospitals, and by combining qualitative methods and machine learning, we found that, compared to men, women attendings wrote more words in their comments to residents, used more job-related terms, and were more likely to provide helpful feedback, particularly when residents were struggling. Additionally, we found women residents were less likely to receive substantive evaluations, regardless of attending gender. Our findings suggest that workplace assessment is gendered in three ways: women (superordinates) spend more time on this low-promotability task, they are more cognitively engaged with assessment, and women (subordinates) are less likely to fully benefit from quality assessment. We conclude that workplaces would benefit from addressing pervasive inequalities hidden within workplace assessment, equalizing not only who provides this assessment work, but who does it well and equitably." The study refers to the period 2013-2015. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1