NDLI: The “New” Dad: Navigating Fathering Identity Within Organizational Contexts

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Humberd, Beth Ladge, Jamie J. Harrington, Brad
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This study takes an identity lens to explore how men experience fatherhood in the context of their work amid shifting ideologies of fathering.This study uses a qualitative, inductive approach with an interview methodology.This study finds that men hold multiple images within their fathering identities that reflect a range of meanings spanning from traditional to more involved fathering. Norms and expectations from participants work and home lives invoke these various images of fathering, which create potential tensions in how men see themselves as fathers. While some participants navigate the multiplicity by defending traditional meanings of fathering, most fathers maintained the multiplicity by embracing the synergy or accepting the ambivalence among the images.As fathers take on more caregiving and other family responsibilities, workplace norms may inhibit the development of a father’s identity, as this study suggests. Fathers respond to potential tensions in ways that do little to alter images of them as “organization men,” and the primary support they receive is through ad hoc and stealth methods. Further, fathers feel constrained in discussing the stress of managing fathering at work. This study emphasizes that organizations and managers must better recognize and appreciate fatherhood as a more serious and time-consuming role than it has been seen to be in the past.While more attention is being paid to the work–family experiences of men, few studies have considered in-depth how the organizational context shapes the identity dynamics fathers experience. This study offers a more nuanced consideration of the complexities associated with taking on a new identity that has multiple meanings, as a result of different contextual factors and shifting ideologies, and offers important insights into the power of the workplace to shape the content and meanings of individual’s non-work identities.
Starting Page	249
Ending Page	266
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08893268
Journal	Journal of Business and Psychology
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1573353X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-05-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Fatherhood Identity Work-life Organizational context Qualitative research Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology Community and Environmental Psychology Personality and Social Psychology Business/Management Science Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Applied Psychology

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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