Curbing Discriminating Human Resource Practices—A Microfounded Perspective

Abstract Discrimination constitutes a sticky phenomenon in corporations despite decades of anti-discrimination initiatives. We argue that this stickiness is related to the complex relations between various factors on micro level organizations, which determine and stabilize each other. Based systematic literature review comprising empirical studies discrimination due age, gender, race, ethnicity/nationality, we find eight general mechanisms can be further clustered into an economic, behavioral, socio-structural domain. While behavioral domain form roots discrimination, economic other as well ones. Thus, analysis shows building blocks are entangled with suggests structured way by identifying problem hierarchy manage complexity.