低工资的高成本:组织中的经济稀缺性效应

IF 3.1 Q2 MANAGEMENT Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.riob.2015.07.001
Jirs Meuris, Carrie R. Leana
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由于当前的经济环境(例如,工资停滞不前,物质欲望增加,学生债务增加),越来越多的员工倾向于经历经济短缺,这里定义为一个人的财务资源少于其需求的感知。在本文中,我们主要关注组织科学中未被充分研究的人群:工作贫困的员工,他们有工作,但收入不足以维持自己和家属的合理生活水平。考虑到最近的研究表明,稀缺性可以产生深远的心理后果,我们认为,组织在减少员工的财务剥夺感方面具有既得利益,因为稀缺性心理有可能溢出到组织功能中。此外,我们断言,大多数组织管理低工资工作的方法不仅在减少稀缺性对组织结果的溢出效应方面无效,而且还增加了他们的忍耐力,因为他们没有考虑到财务剥夺的行为后果。因此,我们提出了更可持续的倡议,通过这些倡议,组织可以减少员工的稀缺。最后,我们讨论了组织研究人员可以更多地参与相关公共政策辩论的方法。
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The high cost of low wages: Economic scarcity effects in organizations

Due to current economic circumstances (e.g., stagnating wages, increasing material aspirations, mounting student debt), an increasing number of employees are prone to experiencing economic scarcity, defined here as the perception that one has fewer financial resources than one's needs require. In this paper, we focus primarily on an under-studied population in the organizational sciences: The working poor—employees who hold jobs but do not earn enough to sustain a reasonable standard of living for themselves and their dependents. Taking into account recent research suggesting that scarcity can have profound psychological consequences, we argue that organizations have a vested interest in reducing feelings of financial deprivation among its employees because the psychology of scarcity has the potential to spill over into organizational functioning. Furthermore, we assert that most organizations’ approaches to managing low-wage work are not only ineffective at reducing the spillover effects of scarcity on organizational outcomes, but also increase their endurance because they do not account for the behavioral consequences of financial deprivation. As such, we present more sustainable initiatives through which organizations can reduce scarcity among its employees. Finally, we discuss ways in which organizational researchers can become more involved in relevant public policy debates.

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Research in Organizational Behavior
Research in Organizational Behavior Psychology-Social Psychology
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期刊介绍: Research in Organizational Behavior publishes commissioned papers only, spanning several levels of analysis, and ranging from studies of individuals to groups to organizations and their environments. The topics encompassed are likewise diverse, covering issues from individual emotion and cognition to social movements and networks. Cutting across this diversity, however, is a rather consistent quality of presentation. Being both thorough and thoughtful, Research in Organizational Behavior is commissioned pieces provide substantial contributions to research on organizations. Many have received rewards for their level of scholarship and many have become classics in the field of organizational research.
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