Ronit. Waismel-Manor

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at The Open University of Israel

The present study builds on the explanatory power of the “doing gender” perspective to understand the effects of family economic structure on the family and career satisfaction of husbands and wives. Using data from a two-panel, couple-level survey of full-time employed middle-class families in the Northeastern United States, we find that when wive...

The notion of ‘think manager–think male’ has been demonstrated in many studies. The current study examines whether leaders are perceived as more effective when they have ‘feminine’, ‘masculine’ or ‘androgynous’ characteristics, and how this relates to the leader's and followers' sex. Using carefully matched samples of 930 employees of 76 bank manag...

In this paper we present a feminist reading of the concept of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and its components. We propose that although the OCB discourse in the literature is presented as gender-neutral, gender is deeply embedded within the concept. We reveal the gendered nature of the concept in two ways. First, drawing on a poststruc...

The preference for reduced work hours is well-known to be associated with various social ramifications, but research on the determinants of workers’ preference is generally limited to investigating individual and job characteristics. Building on the paradigm of the social construction of gender, the life-course perspective, and scholarship on welfa...

Although work is increasingly globalized and mediated by technology, little research has accumulated on the role of culture in shaping individuals' preferences regarding the segmentation or integration of their work and family roles. This study examines the relationships between gender egalitarianism (the extent a culture has a fluid understanding...

Prior studies have identified people’s type of employment (i.e., self-employed versus employee) as a potentially significant factor impacting work-family conflict. However, they have failed to provide a clear picture of the subject and produced inconsistent findings. This study addresses these problems by examining the causal effect of type of empl...

The current study examined the right to a professional workspace and separation between private and public within the home as an arena of gendered negotiation and struggle between spouses working from home during the COVID-19 crisis. Using a qualitative, inductive approach based on grounded theory, we conducted in-depth interviews with fifteen prof...

One of the most thoroughly studied aspects of prosocial workplace behavior is organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Yet, the definition of OCB seems to overlook the fact that help-giving acts may be of different types with different consequences for both giver and recipient. The present research explores workplace help-giving behavior by inves...

In this study, we use the life course perspective and the paradigm of the social construction of gender to examine the relationships between dual-earner couples’ adaptive strategies, such as their work-hour arrangements, conjoint occupational status, and relative earnings, and men’s and women’s own preferences for reduced work hours as well as thei...

The study investigates differences between Jewish and Arab employees vis‐à‐vis their evaluation of the effectiveness of several influence tactics, and examines whether these differences are mediated by cultural differences. Rational persuasion was the only influence tactic that was evaluated as more effective by Jewish employees, in comparison with...

במאמר זה אנו מציגות קריאה פמיניסטית של המושג "התנהגות אזרחית ארגונית" (Organizational Citizenship Behavior – OCB) ושל רכיביו, ומנתחות אותו בהקשר הישראלי. אנו טוענות, כי אף שהשיח בנושא ה-OCB המוצג בספרות הוא לכאורה ניטרלי מבחינה מגדרית, בפועל – מגדר הוא רכיב מרכזי בעיצוב מושג זה. אנו חושפות את האופי המגדרי של המושג בשתי דרכים. ראשית, הניתוח בוחן את...

This study investigates the role of similarity in ethnic origin between supervisor and employee as a potential moderator between subordinates' leader-member exchanges (LMX) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). The results support the interaction effect of supervisor-subordinate ethnic differences with LMX and OCB. As hypothesized, OCB is...

The extent to which personality traits as defined by the Big Five model account for the unique variance in job satisfaction and organizational commitment was studied. Analyses of data obtained from 96 employees of two public institutions showed that 58 and 44% of the explained variance in job satisfaction and organizational commitment, respectively...

The study investigates the role of ethnic similarity between the subordinate and superior as a potential moderator between LMX and OCB.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, Aug. 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-121).