'Kindergarten Cop': Paternalism and Resistance in a High-Commitment Workplace

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Paternalistic leadership in family firms: Types and implications for intergenerational succession (2014, background): “firms as an instrument of managerial control and a mode of organising firm employment relationships, both in large industrial firms and small enterprises (Fleming, 2005).”
Workplace Dignity: Communicating Inherent, Earned, and Remediated Dignity (2015, unknown): “Resistance to indignity also has been shown to be: subtle, such as cynicism communicated by employees rejecting offensive organizational cultures (Fleming, 2005); productive, such as advocacy and organizing efforts by LGBTQ employees experiencing dignity threats due to sexual orientation and/or…”
Implications of Family Business Employment for Employees’ Innovative Work Involvement (2015, background): “With respect to the nature of care, a distinction can be made between care giving to employees, who may accept or deny the offered care, and care taking of employees where they are cast as incompetent and dependent “children” and the organization as a “paternal figure” who knows what is right for it”