Impact of Leader Racial Attitude on Ratings of Causes and Solutions for an Employee of Color Shortage

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 colo...

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Autores principales: Buttner, E. Holly (Autor) ; Lowe, Kevin B. (Autor) ; Billings-Harris, Lenora (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2007
En: Journal of business ethics
Año: 2007, Volumen: 73, Número: 2, Páginas: 129-144
Otras palabras clave:B racial awareness
B leader’s racial attitude
B Diversity
B Organizational Climate
B employee shortage
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1573-0697
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9178-2