Study about Impression Management Perspective on Job Design: Corporate Directors
Introduction: Although job design has long been a central topic in the academic literature on organizations, theoretical perspectives on job design are rooted primarily in organizational psychology, and have only recently begun to draw from sociological theory. Moreover, extant sociological perspectives have focused largely on cross-cultural differences in the perception of job characteristics and the effect of social structure on job design.
While this literature has yielded important insights by examining how features of the macro-social context could influence job design, it has given little consideration to how individual agency or sociopolitical factors could moderate these effects. In this essay, I suggest one possible approach to developing a sociopolitical perspective on job design. In particular, I suggest how job design may be the subject of impression management, and illustrate this idea in the context of a specific corporate role that has received little attention in the job design literature, namely the role of corporate director. Keep reading…
