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

E. Buttner (), Kevin Lowe and Lenora Billings-Harris

Journal of Business Ethics, 2007, vol. 73, issue 2, 129-144

Abstract: 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. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

Keywords: diversity; employee shortage; leader’s racial attitude; racial awareness; organizational climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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