50828 - Unacknowledged and Unregulated Work: Uncovering Mechanisms of Marginalization in Organizations

Description

This session examines research that has uncovered the various aspects of work that morph into expected core components of employment. These additional aspects of work are undervalued, unacknowledged, overlooked, uncompensated, and unrewarded in organizations (Durr & Wingfield, 2011; Evans & Moore, 2015; Melaku, 2019; 2024; Moore, 2008; 2011; Ray et al., 2023; Wingfield; 2019; 2020). Various forms of uncompensated labor have been required of marginalized employees in dominant white spaces that negatively impact their career trajectories. This panel will discuss multiple forms of unacknowledged and unregulated work from emotional segregation (Beeman, 2007), identity taxation (Hirshfield and Joseph, 2012), the inclusion tax (Melaku, 2019; 2022; 2023; 2024), emotional labor and impossible burdens (Evans & Moore, 2015; Moore, 2008; 2011), and incidental racialization (Pan, 2017) that abound in various organizations. These unacknowledged and unregulated works operate as mechanisms of white supremacy that are embedded within institutional spaces that out of hand negatively impact racially marginalized groups. Additionally, the panelists will detail practical ways of identifying unregulated and unacknowledged work that derail targeted groups in their pursuit of advancement, as well as provide recommendations on how to navigate these discourses.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Melissa Victoria Abad, Stanford University

Individual Presentations

• Emotional Segregation at Work: Unrecognized Labor, Cost, and Trauma of Racist Targeting - Angie Beeman, CUNY-Baruch College

• Identity Taxation in Academic Medicine - Laura Ellen Hirshfield, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “Code Monkeys” and “Work Horses”: Asian Americans, Implicit Bias, and the Bamboo Ceiling - Yung-Yi Diana Pan, CUNY-Brooklyn College

• From Hired Positions to DEI Leads in Organizations: Pervasiveness of the Inclusion Tax - Tsedale Mekete Melaku, CUNY-Baruch College; Anthony D Meyers, CUNY-Baruch College

• Impossible Burdens: Emotional Labor in the Organizations - Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University-College Station

Session Organizer

• Tsedale Mekete Melaku, CUNY-Baruch College