Precarious Workers’ Wellbeing: Identity Development Through Online Discourses of Quiet Quitting

Wortelboer, Gerben; Van der Steen, Martijn Pieter

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35494-6_15

The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work 2023

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35494-6_15

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Precarious Workers’ Wellbeing: Identity Development Through Online Discourses of Quiet Quitting

Gerben Wortelboer,

Martijn Pieter Van der Steen

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Commitment and Quiet Quitting: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Harris

2024

Human Resource Management

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Recently scholars across a range of fields have noted the importance of the issue of quiet quitting in term of both pervasiveness and profundity of impact. Our study views quiet quitting as employees intentionally opting actively to manage their work/working lives to adhere to contracted duties/hours while avoiding voluntarily taking on additional responsibilities, tasks, or roles. To date, almost universally, existing studies assume that quiet quitting is a single, monolithic, homogenous phenomenon which relentlessly generates ‘bad’ outcomes for firms and ‘good’ outcomes for perpetrators. This current study addresses these important assumptions with a key aim of our research is to supply grounded evidence of the nature of quiet quitting and to examine the outcomes of such actions for perpetrators' longitudinally. To facilitate this, we adopt the concept of commitment as our conceptual lens for explicating how employees' quiet quitting is manifested and utilize a longitudinal, qualitative research design to gauge outcomes. After outlining existing research in the area, we detail our research design and methodology, before presenting the insights gained during data collection and analysis. Our paper concludes with a discussion of a series of contributions to both theory and practice.

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Commitment and Quiet Quitting: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Harris

2024

Human Resource Management

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Quiet Quitting as Compensatory Respect: Meaningful Work, Recognition, and the Entrepreneurial Ethic

Corbin,

Flenady

2024

Philosophy of Management

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This paper employs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory to interpret ‘quiet quitting’ – the practice of limiting work efforts to contracted requirements – as a strategic response by workers facing misrecognition in their work environment. Honneth argues that misrecognition in any one of three social spheres (the family, political society, and the workplace) constitutes disrespect and causes psychological harm. While Honneth contends that experiences of disrespect tend to motivate collective “struggles for recognition,” we suggest that quiet quitters present an alternative response to disrespect, individually seeking recognition in other social spheres rather than engaging in collective action. Further, we draw on Honneth to suggest that the contemporary “entrepreneurial” work ethic – the widespread expectation that workers invest emotionally in their work role – can in practice undermine workplace recognition, contributing to quiet quitters’ compensatory emphasis on recognitive relations outside of work. This recognition-theoretical approach extends current discussions around quiet quitting and yields valuable insights for management theory and practice regarding the critical role of genuine employee recognition in promoting individual well-being and meaningful work experiences.

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Precarious Workers’ Wellbeing: Identity Development Through Online Discourses of Quiet Quitting

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Commitment and Quiet Quitting: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Commitment and Quiet Quitting: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Quiet Quitting as Compensatory Respect: Meaningful Work, Recognition, and the Entrepreneurial Ethic

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