Abstract
In this paper, we examine the effects of gender and race on American workers’ workplace control. Scholarship on gender, work, and occupation states that gender and race are important predictors of the extent of control workers exercise in workplaces. Literature also posits that job satisfaction and work-family conflict also contribute substantially to workers’ workplace control. However, there exists hardly any empirical study that explores the impacts of gender, race, job satisfaction and work-family conflict altogether on their workplace control. That is what we accomplished in this study. Obtaining data from the 2008 National Study of Changing Workforce (NSCW), we ask: 1) Do women and men workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? 2) Do non-white and white workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? And 3) Do gender and race of the workers influence their workplace control when job satisfaction and work-family conflict are considered? Analyses are based on quantitative methods. Results show that women perceive to have less control over their workplace as compared to men. Moreover, job satisfaction is a more significant predictor of their workplace control than work-family spillover.
Highlights
Gender scholars have paid much attention to workplace control of the workers since the beginning of women’s movement in the early 1970s (Binder et al, 2010)
We address that concern and ask: 1) Do women and men workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? 2) Do non-white and white workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? And 3) Do gender and race of the workers influence their workplace control when job satisfaction and work-family conflict are considered?
With the intention to study the impacts of gender, race, jobsatisfaction, and work-family conflicts on American workers’ workplace control, we asked three questions in this project: 1) Do women and men workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? 2) Do non-white and white workers in America differ in their perceptions of workplace control? And 3) Do gender and race of the workers influence their workplace control when job satisfaction and work-family conflict are considered? Our findings show that women workers perceive a lesser workplace control than their male colleagues, net of their work-family conflicts and job satisfaction
Summary
Gender scholars have paid much attention to workplace control of the workers since the beginning of women’s movement in the early 1970s (Binder et al, 2010). Scholarship on gender, work and occupation identifies two other key factors that influence workplace control of the workers: job satisfaction and work-family conflict (Bethge et al, 2009; Noor, 2002). These two factors are often considered as the human capital characteristics of the workers (Binder et al, 2010; Cohn, 2000). Research on workers’ workplace control suggests that workers with greater work-family conflict are more likely to experience less control in their workplaces (Grönlund, 2007; Harkness et al, 2005)
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