Unseen Injustice: Incivility as Modern Discrimination in Organizations

Unseen Injustice: Incivility as Modern Discrimination in Organizations

This article advances a theory of incivility as a veiled manifestation of sexism and racism in organizations. To support this argument, I draw from social psychological research on modern discrimination. The result is a multilevel model of selective incivility, with determinants at the level of the person, organization, and society. Selective incivility could be one mechanism by which gender an...

Selective Incivility as Modern Discrimination in Organizations: Evidence and Impact

The Injustice of Discrimination

Discrimination might be considered unjust on account of the comparative disadvantage it imposes, the absolute advantage it imposes, the disrespect it shows, or the prejudice it shows. This article argues that each of these accounts overlooks some cases of unjust discrimination. In response to this state of affairs we might combine two or more of these accounts. A promising approach combines the...

Discrimination in Organizations

A number of the largest U.S. firms have been found guilty of labor discrimination despite having policies in place that have been designed in order to avoid the outcome. This paper diagnoses the phenomenon and proposes a contractual solution to ameliorate the situation using a mechanism design approach. Existing research (e.g., Becker (1957), Coate and Loury (1993)) studies a situation in which...

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era