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

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  • E. Buttner
  • Kevin Lowe
  • Lenora Billings-Harris

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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

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  • E. Buttner & Kevin Lowe & Lenora Billings-Harris, 2007. "Impact of Leader Racial Attitude on Ratings of Causes and Solutions for an Employee of Color Shortage," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 73(2), pages 129-144, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:73:y:2007:i:2:p:129-144
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9178-2
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    1. Eddy S. Ng & Greg J. Sears, 2020. "Walking the Talk on Diversity: CEO Beliefs, Moral Values, and the Implementation of Workplace Diversity Practices," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 164(3), pages 437-450, July.
    2. Rosanna Garcia & Daniel W. Baack, 2023. "The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 188(3), pages 397-418, December.
    3. María del Carmen Triana & Kwanghyun Kim & María García, 2011. "To Help or Not to Help? Personal Value for Diversity Moderates the Relationship Between Discrimination Against Minorities and Citizenship Behavior Toward Minorities," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 102(2), pages 333-342, August.
    4. María del Triana & María Wagstaff & Kwanghyun Kim, 2012. "That’s Not Fair! How Personal Value for Diversity Influences Reactions to the Perceived Discriminatory Treatment of Minorities," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 111(2), pages 211-218, December.

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