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- Title
Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at a Mexican Company.
- Authors
Brumley, Krista M.
- Abstract
Mexican workplaces have changed significantly in response to the global marketplace by restructuring, downsizing, and implementing new production and administrative processes. This case study analyzes organizational commitment at a Mexican-owned multinational corporation within the context of workplace transformation. Based on in-depth interviews with 83 women and men, I identify two sources of commitment-family-friendly and career-friendly employment practices. Using the framework of the gendered life course, I show commitment fluctuated given the employees' stage in the life course. This study builds on the gender and work research by exploring how individual attributes of gender and parental status contribute to organizational commitment, but are underscored by the complexity of workplace context.
- Subjects
MEXICO; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; GENDER; EMPLOYMENT practices; COMMITMENT (Psychology); BEVERAGE industry; EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL aspects of work environments; SOCIAL conditions of employees
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 4, p601
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/soin.12041