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Social Class background and disadvantage reproduction in organizations by Mr. Anurag Gupta
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| The key focus of societal efforts to provide socioeconomic mobility has been on giving educational opportunities. Yet even when workers from lower social class backgrounds attain comparable educational and job opportunities as their more advantaged peers, they have lower well-being and career outcomes. In my research, I focus on how the psychological imprint of class background can disadvantage workers from lower social class backgrounds in organizations. I will present one field study conducted in a technology company and show that a lower sense of control increases work to family conflict for workers from lower social class backgrounds. I then design a psychological intervention and conduct a field experiment to help address the problem. In another study, I focus on social class in India (i.e. caste) and conduct a large multi-source field study among members of 100 work teams and their supervisors to show how caste background shapes support for inequality among groups and, in turn helping behaviour and career outcomes. My research reveals psychological mechanisms that reproduce inequality in organizations and tools that leaders and workers can use to overcome some of the challenges. |
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Date: Oct 31 (Mon), 2022
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Time: 2:00pm to 3:15pm
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Zoom |
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English |
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