Title: Illusions of opportunity : employee expectations and workplace inequality /
Authors: Ospina, Sonia Margarita, 1955-
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Discrimination in employment United States
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.
Contents: 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.