RT Article
T1 Impact of Leader Racial Attitude on Ratings of Causes and Solutions for an Employee of Color Shortage
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 73
IS 2
SP 129
OP 144
A1 Buttner, E. Holly
A1 Lowe, Kevin B.
A1 Billings-Harris, Lenora
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785627783
AB Diversity scholars have emphasized the critical role of corporate leaders for ensuring the success of diversity strategic initiatives in organizations. This study reports on business school leaders’ attributions regarding the causes for and solutions to the low representation of U.S. faculty of color in business schools. Results indicatethat leaders with greater awareness of racial issues rated an inhospitable organizational culture as a more important cause and cultural change and recruitment as more important solutions to faculty of color under-representation than did less racially aware respondents. Aware leaders also rated individual minority-group member responsibility for performance a less important solution than did less racially aware respondents. Implications are discussed.
K1 Organizational Climate
K1 racial awareness
K1 leader’s racial attitude
K1 employee shortage
K1 Diversity
DO 10.1007/s10551-006-9178-2