Service employees and self-verification: The roles of occupational stigma consciousness and core self-evaluations
Amanda Shantz, Jonathan E Booth
Human Relations · 2014 · Volume 67 · Issue 12
Abstract
Despite the growing number and importance of service occupations, we know little about how jobholders’ perceptions of societal stigmas of service jobs influence their identification with and attitudes towards work. The present study presents a framework that accords key roles to research on occupational stigma consciousness and the verification of employees’ self-views (i.e. core self-evaluations) to understand employees’ responses to occupational stigmatization. Survey responses from call center employees revealed a negative relationship between occupational stigma consciousness and occupational identification and work meaningfulness and a positive relationship between occupational stigma consciousness and organizational production deviant behaviors for employees who have a positive self-view. Opposite patterns of results surfaced for employees who have a lower positive self-view.
Keywords
core self-evaluations, occupational identification, occupational stigma consciousness, organizational production deviant behaviors, work meaningfulness
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