Artikel
The Impact of Single Agents on Gender Equityin Organizations – The Case of Austrian Equal Opportunity Active Works Councillors
The aim of this article is to explore the influence of single agents on gender equity in organizations. In our qualitative study, we focus on works councillors as equal opportunity agents in large profit organizations in Austria, because of their unique institutional position regarding organizational change in the direction of gender equity. This study is based on the concept of social positioning within the theory of structuration (Giddens 1992). We organize our empirical material along Stones’ (2005) conception of the ‘quadripartite nature of structuration’, including external and internal structures, activities and outcomes. In the discussion of reasons for the rather limited impact equal opportunity active works councillors have on gender equity, we emphasize the constitutive approach of co-determination and a liberal concept of equal opportunity policies. Accordingly, works councillors broadly accept gendered structures in organizations and mainly deal with obvious, unfair (formal) procedures or individual cases of discrimination as the outcomes of these structures.
- Weitere Titel
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Der Einfluss von einzelnen Akteur/innen auf betriebliche Gleichstellungspolitik – am Beispiel von gleichstellungsaktiven Betriebsrät/innen in Österreich
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Industrielle Beziehungen ; ISSN: 1862-0035 ; Volume: 20 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 179-198 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Labor and Demographic Economics: General
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other
Labor Discrimination: General
Labor Standards: Workers' Rights
- Thema
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gender equity
works councillors
social positioning
structuration theory
Austria
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Auer, Manfred
Welte, Heike
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Rainer Hampp Verlag
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Mering
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2013
- DOI
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doi:10.1688/1862-0035_IndB_2013_03_Auer
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Auer, Manfred
- Welte, Heike
- Rainer Hampp Verlag
Entstanden
- 2013
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