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Early-Career Assignments and Workforce Inequality in Engineering
Positioned as part of leadership development in many organizations, ‘stretch assignments’ are a type of work assignment that can prove someone’s readiness to advance in their career. Informed by status characteristics theory, our research investigates the frequency and expected outcomes of stretch assignments among recent engineering graduates in the workforce. Findings suggest that early-career stretch assignments, especially assignments involving new and unfamiliar areas, potentially intensify gender and racial/ethnic workforce inequality. Other types of assignments that may be more familiar and clearly-scoped to early-career engineers show a different and less inequality-intensifying pattern. We discuss why early-career engineers’ assignments may be sites of inequality and the need for more focus on organizational processes around career-advancing work.
Early-Career Assignments and Workforce Inequality in Engineering
Positioned as part of leadership development in many organizations, ‘stretch assignments’ are a type of work assignment that can prove someone’s readiness to advance in their career. Informed by status characteristics theory, our research investigates the frequency and expected outcomes of stretch assignments among recent engineering graduates in the workforce. Findings suggest that early-career stretch assignments, especially assignments involving new and unfamiliar areas, potentially intensify gender and racial/ethnic workforce inequality. Other types of assignments that may be more familiar and clearly-scoped to early-career engineers show a different and less inequality-intensifying pattern. We discuss why early-career engineers’ assignments may be sites of inequality and the need for more focus on organizational processes around career-advancing work.
Early-Career Assignments and Workforce Inequality in Engineering
Gilmartin, Shannon K. (Autor:in) / Brunhaver, Samantha R. (Autor:in) / Jordan-Bloch, Sara (Autor:in) / Gall Rosa, Gabriela (Autor:in) / Simard, Caroline (Autor:in) / Sheppard, Sheri D. (Autor:in)
Engineering Studies ; 16 ; 8-32
02.01.2024
25 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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