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White And Minority Employee Reactions To Perceived Discrimination At Work: Evidence Of White Fragility?, Eddy Ng, Greg J. Sears, Muge Bakkaloglu
White And Minority Employee Reactions To Perceived Discrimination At Work: Evidence Of White Fragility?, Eddy Ng, Greg J. Sears, Muge Bakkaloglu
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Building on the notion of “White fragility,” this study aims to explore how Whites react and cope with perceived discrimination at work. Specifically, the authors explore whether: (1) Whites react more negatively than minorities when they perceive discrimination at work and (2) Whites are more likely than minorities to restore the status quo by leaving the situation when they perceive discrimination at work. Data for this study were obtained from the Professional Worker Career Experience Survey. In total, 527 working professionals from multiple organizations across the central USA participated in the survey. The authors find evidence that Whites experience more …
Black Lives Matter: On The Denial Of Systemic Racism, White Liberals, And Polite Racism, Eddy Ng, Andrew Lam
Black Lives Matter: On The Denial Of Systemic Racism, White Liberals, And Polite Racism, Eddy Ng, Andrew Lam
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Systemic discrimination, racism, and inequality have garnered renewed and intense attention following the George Floyd murder and demonstrations of Black Lives Matter (BLM) around the world. In sharing our anger and sorrow, we reached out to several colleagues and scholars in the Black community. We wanted to provide a forum [1] for them to express their grief, share their experiences and help us move forward. The response to our invitation to write was overwhelming, but also heartbreaking. Our colleagues were devastated and broken. They expressed immense difficulty in writing because of anger, despair, and sadness. Stella Nkomo (personal correspondence) asked …
Walking The Talk On Diversity: Ceo Beliefs, Moral Values, And The Implementation Of Workplace Diversity Practices, Eddy Ng, Greg J. Seatrs
Walking The Talk On Diversity: Ceo Beliefs, Moral Values, And The Implementation Of Workplace Diversity Practices, Eddy Ng, Greg J. Seatrs
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Although CEO commitment is recognized as being crucial to organizational diversity efforts, we know little about how CEOs signal their priorities and mobilize key organizational actors to implement diversity management. We tested an integrative model in which CEO beliefs about diversity were theorized to predict the implementation of organizational diversity practices through two consecutive mediating steps—via greater CEO engagement in pro-diversity behavior, and in turn, higher perceived CEO commitment by their HR manager. In this model, we also proposed a moderating effect such that when CEOs have less positive beliefs about diversity, CEOs espousing higher moral values will display greater …