Annilee M. Game

• PhD.
• Professor (Associate) at University of East Anglia

This chapter examines how precarity affects the experiences of low skilled dirty workers – a group characterised by stigma and devaluation. Utilising Axel Honneth’s ideas of mutual recognition and the normative significance of work for identity, we explore how precarious working conditions affect self-understanding at the intersection of class and...

Researchers are increasingly interested in how employee relational processes affect virtual team outcomes. Applying attachment theory and the Job Demands–Resources model, we examined the relationship between employee attachment orientations and work engagement, and the mediating role of collaborative job crafting. In a three-wave longitudinal panel...

Concerns about devaluation and misrecognition are central for understanding the experiences of workers in stigmatised occupations. Yet contemporary approaches have been criticised for over-simplifying workers’ responses to mis/recognition. Povinelli’s concepts of ‘trembling of recognition’ and ‘social tense’ offer a useful starting point for extend...

This study extends prior research on the relational antecedents of employee voluntary turnover to examine the association between leader attachment orientations and employee retention (i.e., how long employees stay with their organization). Using a machine learning approach, attachment orientations and (as a control) Big Five personality traits of...

Organizations increasingly adopt health and wellbeing programmes (HWPs), yet little is known about the underlying processes or boundary conditions that may influence the effectiveness of these initiatives on employee outcomes such as wellbeing and job satisfaction. In a 3‐year study, we adopted a social exchange approach to examine: (1) the role of...

HRM and Migration scholars increasingly employ Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals, fields and habitus to explain the interrelationships between migrant careers and context. Both literatures employ a Bourdieusean framework to examine devaluation of migrant capitals in host nations and migrant responses to such devaluation. However, their explanations a...

Despite growing interest in video-based methods in organizational research, the use of collaborative ethnographic documentaries is rare. Organizational research could benefit from the inclusion of collaborative ethnographic documentaries to (a) enable the participation of “difficult to research” groups, (b) better access the material, embodied, or...

A defining characteristic of the healthy workplace is respectful interpersonal behaviour among co-workers. Respectful workplaces create positive individual outcomes, whereas poor, disrespectful, working relationships impose a direct strain on individuals (Leiter, Spence Laschinger, Day & Gilin Oore, 2011)...Unfortunately, incivility is widespread i...

This study examined the link between employees’ adult attachment orientations and perceptions of line managers’ interpersonal justice behaviors, and the moderating effect of national culture (collectivism). Participants from countries categorized as low collectivistic (N = 205) and high collectivistic (N = 136) completed an online survey. Attachmen...

As immigration polices tighten the entry of highly skilled workers to the UK, employers warn that skill shortages may damage UK competitiveness in sectors such as IT. Targeted ‘skills-matching’ policies are viewed as a solution, yet skilled migrants in reality are often left underemployed. Although the literature attributes this to barriers migrant...

Purpose: To explore the roles of perceived leader caregiving, and followers’ leader-specific attachment orientations, in followers’ experiences of negative interactions and emotions. Methodology/approach: In a qualitative field study, individuals identified as secure and insecure (avoidant or anxious) on a pre-measure of leader-specific attachment,...

Prior research suggests brokers do not always act in the best interests of clients, although morally obligated to do so. We empirically investigated this issue focusing on trades executed at best execution price, before and after the introduction of electronic limit-order trading, on the London Stock Exchange. As a result of limit-order trading, th...

In order to conceptualise the interrelationships between migrant careers and contextual factors, scholars increasingly draw on Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals, fields and habitus. However, we note that this framework is currently used to examine the relation of migrant careers only with the host nation fields and not with originating nation fields....

Line managers increasingly play a key role in organizational career development systems, yet few studies have examined the nature of this role or its implications for employee career attitudes and behaviors. In two studies, we used attachment theory to explore this issue. In Study 1, in-depth interviews (N = 20) showed that employees viewed career...

Despite growing interest in ethnographic studies in organizational research, the use of video-based methods in ethnographic studies, more particularly collaborative ethnographic documentaries is still rare. Organizational research could benefit from the inclusion of collaborative ethnographic documentaries a) to enable the participation of ‘difficu...

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The reasons why supervisory/line management relationships are one of the most frequently cited causes of workplace negative emotions are poorly understood. Existing research on emotions at work provides some clues but largely omits the role of relational context. Drawing on attachment theory, the present research develops a model suggesting that em...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how people cope with boredom at work, and whether differences in “boredom coping” effectiveness are associated with differences in employee well‐being, and safety behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The authors used two methods to gather information for this paper. Employees in a chemical proc...

The article discusses affective aspects of professional relationships involving management or supervision, focusing on negative emotions in the context of attachment theory. A survey study involving two dozen British nurses is described. The nurses' reactions to their supervisors are characterized as stable, anxious or avoidant. A discussion of eve...