How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?

The occupational structure in retail employment is known to be gendered, such that women tend to occupy ‘softer’ social roles, while men tend to occupy ‘harder’ physical and technical roles. This article presents an integrative model that illustrates the balance of KSAOs (knowledge, skills, abiliti...

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Main Authors: Chang, Joshua, Travaglione, Tony, O'Neill, Grant
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27483
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description The occupational structure in retail employment is known to be gendered, such that women tend to occupy ‘softer’ social roles, while men tend to occupy ‘harder’ physical and technical roles. This article presents an integrative model that illustrates the balance of KSAOs (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personality characteristics) and retail sectors between male and female retail employees, and explains how gender can signal employee qualities in the retail sector. The empirical analysis uses data from a survey of 702 respondents employed across 40 ANZSIC (Australian New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification) retail categories. Based on signalling theory, the findings suggest that an employee's gender can be an unintentional signal for unobservable qualities in retail employment, which has implications for customer service, human resource management, and gender discrimination.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-274832018-11-08T06:26:05Z How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing? Chang, Joshua Travaglione, Tony O'Neill, Grant Gender Discrimination Employment Retailing The occupational structure in retail employment is known to be gendered, such that women tend to occupy ‘softer’ social roles, while men tend to occupy ‘harder’ physical and technical roles. This article presents an integrative model that illustrates the balance of KSAOs (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personality characteristics) and retail sectors between male and female retail employees, and explains how gender can signal employee qualities in the retail sector. The empirical analysis uses data from a survey of 702 respondents employed across 40 ANZSIC (Australian New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification) retail categories. Based on signalling theory, the findings suggest that an employee's gender can be an unintentional signal for unobservable qualities in retail employment, which has implications for customer service, human resource management, and gender discrimination. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27483 10.1016/j.jretconser.2015.07.004 Pergamon fulltext
spellingShingle Gender
Discrimination
Employment
Retailing
Chang, Joshua
Travaglione, Tony
O'Neill, Grant
How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title_full How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title_fullStr How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title_full_unstemmed How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title_short How can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
title_sort how can gender signal employee qualities in retailing?
topic Gender
Discrimination
Employment
Retailing
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27483