Constructing affiliation and solidarity in job interviews

Lipovsky, Caroline

doi:10.1177/1750481308095938

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“…Few phenomenological investigations of any assessment approach exist where perceptions from multiple perspectives are compared (for exceptions, see Brown & Campion, ; Edwards, Cable, Williamson, Lambert, & Shipp, ). Qualitative descriptions of interpersonal dynamics during job interviews are typically focused on applicant behaviors and hiring‐related decisions, rather than recruiter perceptions that may be associated with the moral appraisals leading to those decisions (Bolino et al, ; for exception, see Lipovsky, ). In many senses, we do not see structured selection methods as being ontologically different than informal assessment encounters that take place in everyday work life.…”

Section: Alternative Inductive‐descriptive Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The assessment of individual moral goodness

Chiu

Hackett

2016

Business Ethics: A European Review

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In a field dominated by research on moral prescription (business ethics) and moral prediction (behavioral ethics), there is poor understanding of the place of moral perceptions in organizations alongside philosophical ethics and causal models of ethical outcomes. As leadership failures continue to plague organizational health and firms recognize the wide-ranging impact of subjective bias, scholars and practitioners need a renewed frame of reference from which to reconceptualize their current understanding of ethics as perceived in individuals. Based on an assessment and selection perspective from the field of human resource management, an alternative to conventional deductive-prescriptive approaches is proposed based on a pluralistic concept referred to as moral goodness. An inductive-descriptive theory-building framework is constructed based on three interrelated streams of inquiry to yield insight concerning both formal and informal instances of assessment. Recommendations are proposed for the application of the framework to future research and practice.

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Section: Alternative Inductive‐descriptive Approachesmentioning

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The assessment of individual moral goodness

Chiu

Hackett

2016

Business Ethics: A European Review

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“…APPRAISAL is an extension of the interpersonal dimension, and has been widely adopted to analyse evaluation in (mainly) written texts (e.g., Bednarek, 2008;Carretero and Taboada, 2014;Don, 2007;Fuoli, 2012;Fuoli and Hommerberg, 2015;Fuoli and Paradis, 2014;Hommerberg and Don, 2015;Hood, 2006;Hood and Martin, 2007;Kaltenbacher, 2006;Lipovsky, 2008Lipovsky, , 2011Lipovsky, , 2013Mackay and Parkinson, 2009;O'Donnell, 2014;Pounds, 2010Pounds, , 2011Ryshina-Pankova, 2014;Santamaría-García, 2014;Taboada and Carretero, 2012;Taboada et al, 2014;and White, 1998). The category of APPRAISAL with which this study is concerned is ENGAGEMENT and its division of evaluative expressions into markers of dialogic EXPANSION and CONTRACTION on the basis of their intersubjective functionality.…”

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A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

Pöldvere¹,

Fuoli²,

Paradis³

2016

Corpora

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This study examines the dialogic functions of expansion and contraction of first-person epistemic and evidential Complement-Taking Predicate (CTP) constructions, such as I think complement, I suppose complement and I know complement, in spoken discourse. It combines corpus and experimental methods (i) to investigate whether CTP constructions are used to open up the dialogic space for new ideas or counterarguments, or to fend off alternative views, and (ii) to identify what contextual factors play a role in determining the dialogic force of the constructions. First, an exploratory analysis of CTP constructions in the London–Lund Corpus (LLC) of spoken British English is carried out with the aim to identify important contextual factors and generate hypotheses about their dialogic effects. Then, a laboratory experiment is conducted to test the impact of the three most prominent factors for speakers' interpretations of utterances containing CTPs. The results indicate that CTP constructions do not only serve to expand the dialogic context in which they occur, but also to restrict alternative views. Interlocutor status, the co-occurrence of other stance markers and prosodic marking of first-person CTP are shown to have a significant effect on the dialogic function of the expressions. These findings call into question some claims in appraisal theory about the role of CTP constructions in discourse, and highlight the need for a flexible approach to the analysis of these poly-functional stance expressions.

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“…The creation of co-membership was also discussed by Lipovsky (2006Lipovsky ( , 2008, who examined how NES candidates negotiated their skills and professional experience in interviews carried out in Australia in French for an academic post in France. Lipovsky showed how the candidates' lexicogrammatical choices contributed to the construction of solidarity between the interview participants and influenced the interviewers' positive or negative impressions of the answer, and thus of the candidate.…”

Section: Teaching and Learning For Employment Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Second Languages for the Workplace

Newton¹,

Kuśmierczyk²

2011

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

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Workplace culture and organization are evolving as they adapt to globalization and rapid technological development. Likewise, the nature and role of workplace language and the literacy demands of work are changing in the face of increasingly multicultural workplaces and global communication networks. Among these changes, recent research has highlighted the role that informal modes of interpersonal communication play in the functioning of the modern workplace. Successful participation in such interactions is seen as not just a question of fitting in socially, but of doing work through talk. Ethnographic research in the workplace has stressed the importance of understanding language by viewing it within its social setting and understanding the interactional norms of particular communities of practice. Research into language programs for the workplace reflects this shift in emphasis. In contrast to research in the field of language for specific purposes on the specialized vocabulary and formal registers of particular professions, a growing body of research focuses on teaching and learning the language of routine workplace interactions. This article reviews current research into the nature of workplace language, noting in particular the contributions from ethnographic and language socialization research. It then discusses research into four aspects of the content of language programs for the workplace: employability skills, interpersonal communication, intercultural and critical language awareness, and teaching focused on the employment interview.

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Constructing affiliation and solidarity in job interviews

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

The assessment of individual moral goodness

The assessment of individual moral goodness

A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

Teaching Second Languages for the Workplace

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