TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping with dirty work
T2 - a meta-synthesis from a resource perspective
AU - Soral, Prakriti
AU - Pati, Surya Prakash
AU - Singh, Sanjay Kumar
AU - Cooke, Fang Lee
N1 - Funding Information:
None.
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PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - There is now a substantial body of literature on the coping strategies used by workers employed in stigmatized dirty work. However, there is insufficient knowledge about what resources they use while employing these strategies, what factors impact resource availability and utilization for coping, and how the utilization of resources leads to differential coping. Our study fills these gaps. First, using meta-synthesis of 39 qualitative studies, we consolidate the resources these workers use to cope into six categories. Second, the study discusses what factors impact resource availability and utilization by proposing the role of occupational prestige as a determining factor. Third, borrowing from conservation of resources theory and self-affirmation theory, this study proposes resources as facilitators of self-affirmations leading to differential coping. Finally, we propose a conceptual framework along with propositions depicting how dissonance, caused by inconsistency in self-integrity, leads to the use of various resources for differential coping.
AB - There is now a substantial body of literature on the coping strategies used by workers employed in stigmatized dirty work. However, there is insufficient knowledge about what resources they use while employing these strategies, what factors impact resource availability and utilization for coping, and how the utilization of resources leads to differential coping. Our study fills these gaps. First, using meta-synthesis of 39 qualitative studies, we consolidate the resources these workers use to cope into six categories. Second, the study discusses what factors impact resource availability and utilization by proposing the role of occupational prestige as a determining factor. Third, borrowing from conservation of resources theory and self-affirmation theory, this study proposes resources as facilitators of self-affirmations leading to differential coping. Finally, we propose a conceptual framework along with propositions depicting how dissonance, caused by inconsistency in self-integrity, leads to the use of various resources for differential coping.
KW - Conservation of resources theory
KW - Coping resources
KW - Dirty work
KW - Occupational prestige
KW - Self-affirmation theory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100861
DO - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100861
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115817402
SN - 1053-4822
VL - 32
JO - Human Resource Management Review
JF - Human Resource Management Review
IS - 4
M1 - 100861
ER -