Professors Ashforth and Kriener began their study of dirty work because..?

Question

a.dirty work was one aspect of work life that had never been written about by social scientists.

b.they wanted to understand how people doing dirty work could take pride in their work.

c.these types of jobs are finally dying out in U.S. society and they wanted to understand such work before it disappeared.

d.their fathers had both supported their families by doing dirty work.

e.none of these

Answer 1

B.  The term “dirty work” is often heard in everyday discussions of organizational life.  Nearly 50 years ago, Hughes (1958: 122) gave the term some scholarly teeth by defining dirty work as tasks that are “physically, socially or morally” tainted. More recently, Ashforth and Kreiner (1999) built upon Hughes’ early work by expanding the definition of dirty work and proposing a theoretical model of how dirty workers often maintain a positive identity in the face of pervasive stigma.