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Management and Organizational Studies on Blue & Grey Collar Workers

Diversity of Collars
2023 ᛫


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Summary


The digital transformation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic seemed in many ways a fair treaty between employers and employees. However, realistically, its advantages have primarily benefitted white-collar workers with the ability to work from home, excluding a significant proportion of the global workforce, those responsible for providing fresh water, environmental hygiene, transportation, electricity, healthcare and food and security services, who do not have the option of conducting their jobs remotely. The pandemic has thus deepened the gap between white and blue and grey collar workers.


Combining both theoretical and empirical studies, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers focuses on recent issues such as digitalization and migration and their implications for organizational commitment, HRM functions and strategic management processes. Acting as an examination of the changing nature of power between blue and grey collar workers and institutional hierarchies in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributors foreground the importance of these roles as a cornerstone for the competitive power of industries and nations, as well as basic global infrastructure, both now and in future.


Highlighting the workers who provide the essential services, maintenance and manufactured goods that power the global economy, Management and Organizational Studies on Blue and Grey Collar Workers supplies essential knowledge on an often overlooked workforce for a variety of disciplines, including human resource management, industrial relations, social psychology, labor economics, gender studies, political science, union studies and health care management.

Table of contents

  • Foreword; Mustafa Ozbilgin and Fatih Çetin

  • Part I. The new perspective in research on blue-collar workers
  • Chapter 1. The Intellectual Structure of Academic Studies on Blue-Collar Workers; Caner AsbaÅŸ, Åžule Tuzlukaya, Halil EroÄŸlu, and Erdem KırkbeÅŸoÄŸlu
  • Chapter 2. The Relationship between Negative Ties and Blue-Collar Employees’ Performance and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Effects of Personal Reputation; Amer Ali Al-Atwi, H. Cenk Sözen, and Elham Alshaibani
  • Chapter 3. The Role of Gender in Assessments of Employees' Psychosocial Risks to Work; Hulusi Karabiber, Sena Kurt, and Yonca Deniz Gürol
  • Chapter 4. The Role of Job Crafting In the Effect of Job Passion on Job Satisfaction; Gamze Güner KibaroÄŸlu, Bircan Güner, and H. Nejat Basım
  • Chapter 5. How Can Blue Collar Workers Enhance Their Negative Social Identity?; Nurcan Kemikkıran
  • Chapter 6. What Goes Around Comes Around: Sentiments of Couriers during Covid-19 Pandemic; Pinar Özbilen, Alev Özer Torgalöz, and Sevgin Batuk Ünlü
  • Part II. The new perspective in research on grey-collar workers
  • Chapter 7. Organizational Mnemonics of Grey Collar Workers: Implementing Sna, Abm, Ant; Bora Aksu and Merve Vuslat Aksu
  • Chapter 8. Social Ties or Nature: The Effect of Social Ties on Self Leadership of Grey Collar Workers; Pınar FayganoÄŸlu, Koruhan FayganoÄŸlu, and Rukiye Can Yalçın
  • Chapter 9. What Colour is Your Collar? Examining Grey-Collar Disabled Arts Workers; Ruth Rentschler, AyÅŸe Collins, Karen Williams, and Fara Azmat
  • Part III. Blue and grey collar workers – issues and challenges
  • Chapter 10. A Note on the Nature of Collar; Bahar Araz and Ipek Kalemci Tuzun
  • Chapter 11. Implications of Employee Empowerment on Covid-19 Cases in High Medicaid Nursing Homes; Ferhat Devrim Zengul and Justin Lord
  • Chapter 12.Organizational Culture, Human Resource Management Practices, and Blue And Grey Collar Worker Turnover: The Case of Underresourced Nursing Homes In The Us; Robert Weech-Maldonado, Akbar Ghiasi, Justin Lord, Ganisher Davlyatov, Larry Hearld, Ferhat Devrim Zengul, and Kent Rondeau
  • Chapter 13. Silent Heroes of Strategy: Neglected Role of Blue and Grey Collar Workers; Mehmet Barca and Semih Ceyhan
  • Chapter 14. Media Representation and the Worker: A Qualitative Analysis in Tv Ads; Ebru Akçay, Asli Åžahinkaya ErmiÅŸ, and Gilman Senem Gençtürk Hızal
  • Chapter 15. The Role of Creative Labor as a Value in the Creation of Perfumes; Tural Aliyev
  • Chapter 16. Creatıvıty and Labour in Dıgıtally Drıven Market: The Case of Freelance Illustrator; Semra Ay and Kübra Canlı
  • Chapter 17. The Importance Of The Government Role And Its Interactıon In The Sharıng Economy And Gıg Workers; Ali Ilhan

About the authors



Joanna Paliszkiewicz is Full Professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland.

Demet VaroÄŸlu is Full Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.