By Robert L. Dipboye, Adrienne Colella
This quantity brings jointly most sensible students in business and organizational psychology with social psychologists to discover the examine and thought in relation to a variety of components of office discrimination.
Many of the individuals to this ebook participated in a convention on place of work discrimination held at Rice collage in could 2000. the belief got here from the belief that there were no try and collect a number of the literatures at the subject. Discrimination and problems with employment variety are major subject matters this day in IO psychology, company, and human source management.
This edited quantity examines the subsequent parts of this crucial discussion:
- how to provide an explanation for discrimination in organizations;
- understanding discrimination opposed to particular teams; and
- implications for sensible efforts to lessen discrimination.
This e-book brings jointly, in a single quantity, a evaluation of the study on discrimination according to race, age, sexual orientation, gender, actual visual appeal, incapacity, and character. furthermore, it explores the multilevel antecedents and capability bases for a normal version of discrimination within the place of work. whereas social mental study and thought have supplied worthwhile insights, an figuring out of discrimination within the office and ideas would require incorporating elements on the organizational point as well as components on the person and crew degrees. even though a definitive version isn't really reached, the purpose of this article is to facilitate destiny study and idea.
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1. Individual Differences People differ systematically in their tendencies to perceive others in terms of group membership, in their propensity to see groups hierarchically, and in their willingness to endorse stereotypic characterizations and prejudicial attitudes openly. We consider three individual differences, the first of which is authoritarianism. Developed as a construct in the late 1940s, the author itarian personality inventory was constructed to measure anti-Semitism and its correlates (Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, & Sanford, 1950).
Thus, we describe some of the causes and consequences of social cate gorization. As illustrated in the top of Fig. 1, we discuss key processes involved in social categorization, and then we consider how cognitive pro cesses relate to stereotyping and affective reactions separately and how they can jointly influence discrimination. Social Categorization and Social Identity From a social categorization perspective, one universal facet of human perception essential for efficient functioning is the ability to sort people, spontaneously and with minimum effort or awareness, into a smaller num ber of meaningful categories.
Department of Labor, 2002a). S. Dept. of Labor, 2002b). People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed and are paid less than people who do not have disabilities (McNeil, 2000). S. Dept. of Labor, 2002b). There are little data on gays and lesbians, but here again there is evidence of inequalities such as greater rates of termination (Croteau, 1996). A variety of factors is likely to determine labor market outcomes, and a question addressed to varying degrees in these chapters is how unfair discrimination in the workplace is involved in these inequalities.