Insidious Procedures: Diversity Awards Legitimize Unfair Organizational Practices

When Unfair Procedures Increase Group-Serving Behavior

Greater group identification and higher levels of procedural justice typically work together to encourage group members to engage in group-serving cooperative behavior. However, when people who already identify with a group receive information indicating that the group is procedurally unjust, their motivation to engage in groupserving behavior may increase. This article reports two studies in w...

Diversity initiatives, status, and system-justifying beliefs: When and how diversity efforts de-legitimize discrimination claims

Diversity initiatives aim to improve outcomes for low-status groups in organizations. Yet they also may ironically act as legitimizing cues, leading to an assumption of fairness and reducing the detection of discrimination. We explored how group status (high-status majority vs. low-status minority) and beliefs about the fairness of the system influence when the mere presence of a diversity init...

Presumed Fair: Ironic Effects of Organizational Diversity Structures

This research tests the hypothesis that the presence (vs. absence) of organizational diversity structures causes high-status group members (Whites, men) to perceive organizations with diversity structures as procedurally fairer environments for underrepresented groups (racial minorities, women), even when it is clear that underrepresented groups have been unfairly disadvantaged within these org...

Driving Organizational Practices through Knowledge

E-MAIL: [email protected] or [email protected]. Among the central decisions that each week confront a major international weekly news magazine such as TIME Magazine is what to run as its cover story. Barring any sudden or critical global event, which would pre-empt other options, the editorial board faces an array of choices: local politics, cultural trends, a leading celebrity from a particu...

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