Jocelyn Handy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3916118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Handy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Handy |
| SIGNATURE | HANDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relational Expectations and Transactional Obligations
This research investigated the triangular employment relationship between organizations, temporary staffing agencies, and clerical temporary workers using the conceptual framework of the psychological contract. The rapid growth in triadic employment relationships is well documented; however, there is limited research into the interlocking psychological contracts between the three parties. This research advances our understanding of the mechanisms…
Managing professional identity within a changing market environment
This research investigated the effects of changes in the market environment for optometry services and products on the professional identity of New Zealand optometrists. It explored three issues. First, ways participants’ location within either the independent or corporate sectors shaped their professional identities. Second, ways potential ethical conflicts between participants’ healthcare and retailing identities were resolved. Last, participan…
The systems psychodynamics of gendered hiring
This article uses systems psychodynamic concepts to explore the creation and reproduction of gendered inequality within the New Zealand film industry. The article focuses on the ways in which senior film production workers’ anxieties about hiring, or working with, women influence the process of assembling project teams. It suggests that the process of choosing team members creates considerable anxiety for both senior film production workers with …
An addictive environment
This article uses the theoretical framework provided by social models of addiction to interpret freelance film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour. The article suggests that the structural conditions of project-based labour within the film industry create a subjective experience in which the financial, creative, social and emotional rewards of employment are interspersed with the anxieties of repeated unemployment. …
Bound to care
This article applies Bateson’s concept of the double bind to the interpretation of emergent problems in custodial grandmothers’ relationships with their other adult offspring and non-custodial grandchildren. The article suggests that women raising grandchildren are placed in a double bind situation in which the two core family values of caring for family members in need and treating all family members equally are in conflict. This conflict of int…
Sexual Harassment in Small‐Town New Zealand
This research investigates women's experiences of sexual harassment in three different organizations in the same New Zealand town. Women working at the local meat‐processing plant, a retail store and a local bank were interviewed about their personal experiences of sexual harassment. The interviews revealed that sexual harassment took different forms and was interpreted and responded to differently in each organization. Women at the meatworks wer…
Stress and Contradiction in Psychiatric Nursing
This article examines the relationship between the organizational structure and ideology of the psychiatric system and the daily actions and subjective experiences of psychiatric nurses. It presents empirical data from an in-depth case study in which psychiatric nurses attempt to deal with the stresses of their work by developing various collective coping strategies which eventually become embedded in the daily routines of the institution, intens…
The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession
Theoretical and Methodological Problems Within Occupational Stress and Burnout Research
This article examines the implicit assumptions underlying current research into occupational stress and burnout. It argues that the two fields utilize similar theoretical models and research techniques and therefore have a number of problems in common. These problems arise from their common tendency to adopt a psychological perspective which pays insufficient attention to the complexity of the interrelationship between social conditions and subje…
An addictive environment
This article uses the theoretical framework provided by social models of addiction to interpret freelance film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour. The article suggests that the structural conditions of project-based labour within the film industry create a subjective experience in which the financial, creative, social and emotional rewards of employment are interspersed with the anxieties of repeated unemployment. …
Theoretical and Methodological Problems Within Occupational Stress and Burnout Research
This article examines the implicit assumptions underlying current research into occupational stress and burnout. It argues that the two fields utilize similar theoretical models and research techniques and therefore have a number of problems in common. These problems arise from their common tendency to adopt a psychological perspective which pays insufficient attention to the complexity of the interrelationship between social conditions and subje…
Sexual Harassment in Small‐Town New Zealand
This research investigates women's experiences of sexual harassment in three different organizations in the same New Zealand town. Women working at the local meat‐processing plant, a retail store and a local bank were interviewed about their personal experiences of sexual harassment. The interviews revealed that sexual harassment took different forms and was interpreted and responded to differently in each organization. Women at the meatworks wer…
The systems psychodynamics of gendered hiring
This article uses systems psychodynamic concepts to explore the creation and reproduction of gendered inequality within the New Zealand film industry. The article focuses on the ways in which senior film production workers’ anxieties about hiring, or working with, women influence the process of assembling project teams. It suggests that the process of choosing team members creates considerable anxiety for both senior film production workers with …
Stress and Contradiction in Psychiatric Nursing
This article examines the relationship between the organizational structure and ideology of the psychiatric system and the daily actions and subjective experiences of psychiatric nurses. It presents empirical data from an in-depth case study in which psychiatric nurses attempt to deal with the stresses of their work by developing various collective coping strategies which eventually become embedded in the daily routines of the institution, intens…
The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession
Bound to care
This article applies Bateson’s concept of the double bind to the interpretation of emergent problems in custodial grandmothers’ relationships with their other adult offspring and non-custodial grandchildren. The article suggests that women raising grandchildren are placed in a double bind situation in which the two core family values of caring for family members in need and treating all family members equally are in conflict. This conflict of int…
Theoretical and Methodological Problems Within Occupational Stress and Burnout Research
This article examines the implicit assumptions underlying current research into occupational stress and burnout. It argues that the two fields utilize similar theoretical models and research techniques and therefore have a number of problems in common. These problems arise from their common tendency to adopt a psychological perspective which pays insufficient attention to the complexity of the interrelationship between social conditions and subje…
Stress and Contradiction in Psychiatric Nursing
This article examines the relationship between the organizational structure and ideology of the psychiatric system and the daily actions and subjective experiences of psychiatric nurses. It presents empirical data from an in-depth case study in which psychiatric nurses attempt to deal with the stresses of their work by developing various collective coping strategies which eventually become embedded in the daily routines of the institution, intens…
The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession
Sexual Harassment in Small‐Town New Zealand
This research investigates women's experiences of sexual harassment in three different organizations in the same New Zealand town. Women working at the local meat‐processing plant, a retail store and a local bank were interviewed about their personal experiences of sexual harassment. The interviews revealed that sexual harassment took different forms and was interpreted and responded to differently in each organization. Women at the meatworks wer…
Bound to care
This article applies Bateson’s concept of the double bind to the interpretation of emergent problems in custodial grandmothers’ relationships with their other adult offspring and non-custodial grandchildren. The article suggests that women raising grandchildren are placed in a double bind situation in which the two core family values of caring for family members in need and treating all family members equally are in conflict. This conflict of int…
An addictive environment
This article uses the theoretical framework provided by social models of addiction to interpret freelance film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour. The article suggests that the structural conditions of project-based labour within the film industry create a subjective experience in which the financial, creative, social and emotional rewards of employment are interspersed with the anxieties of repeated unemployment. …
The systems psychodynamics of gendered hiring
This article uses systems psychodynamic concepts to explore the creation and reproduction of gendered inequality within the New Zealand film industry. The article focuses on the ways in which senior film production workers’ anxieties about hiring, or working with, women influence the process of assembling project teams. It suggests that the process of choosing team members creates considerable anxiety for both senior film production workers with …
Managing professional identity within a changing market environment
This research investigated the effects of changes in the market environment for optometry services and products on the professional identity of New Zealand optometrists. It explored three issues. First, ways participants’ location within either the independent or corporate sectors shaped their professional identities. Second, ways potential ethical conflicts between participants’ healthcare and retailing identities were resolved. Last, participan…
Relational Expectations and Transactional Obligations
This research investigated the triangular employment relationship between organizations, temporary staffing agencies, and clerical temporary workers using the conceptual framework of the psychological contract. The rapid growth in triadic employment relationships is well documented; however, there is limited research into the interlocking psychological contracts between the three parties. This research advances our understanding of the mechanisms…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Empirical research (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)