Are We Back to Working on the Corporate Chain Gang? Exploring the Ways Societal Discourses of Unstable Job Markets Shape Labor and Use of Work/life Policies

• In Event: Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics In Uncertain Times

Abstract

Organizations seek to attract and keep the brightest and best employees by often focusing on the well-being of the employee. However, in times of economic uncertainty, do the societal discourses of a failing economy, budget cuts, and job losses create unseen pressures that guide individual behavior in the workplace? This paper explores the ways employees have responded to the new societal discourses especially in terms of changing labor production and use of work/life policies.

Author

• Disraelly Cruz, University of Missouri, Columbia