Employment Discrimination in Organizations: Antecedents and Consequences

This article reviews the research on employment discrimination in organizations. It focuses on discrimination perceptions, charges, and lawsuits and discusses the consequences of discrimination. Among the conclusions are the following: (a) The proportion of claimants filing under different antidiscr...

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Published inJournal of management Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 786 - 830
Main Authors Goldman, Barry M., Gutek, Barbara A., Stein, Jordan H., Lewis, Kyle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.12.2006
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Discrimination in employment - Research
Employment discrimination
Litigation
Racial discrimination
Sexual harassment - Research
Studies
sexism
racism
discrimination
sexual harassment
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Summary:This article reviews the research on employment discrimination in organizations. It focuses on discrimination perceptions, charges, and lawsuits and discusses the consequences of discrimination. Among the conclusions are the following: (a) The proportion of claimants filing under different antidiscrimination statutes differs by race; (b) the area needs theories that can explain wide variance in perceptions of events; (c) the consequences of discrimination are best viewed from individual, group, and organizational levels; and (d) if the results of instruments are used in legal settings, social scientists should pay careful attention to reliability and validity, as well as standards of legally admissible evidence.
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ISSN:0149-2063
1557-1211
DOI:10.1177/0149206306293544