Unequal attendance: The relationships between race, organizational diversity cues, and absenteeism

被引:105
作者
Avery, Derek R.
McKay, Patrick F.
Wilson, David C.
Tonidandel, Scott
机构
[1] Univ Houston, Dept Psychol, Houston, TX 77204 USA
[2] Rutgers State Univ, Sch Management & Labor Relat, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[3] Univ Delaware, Dept Polit Sci & Int Relat, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[4] Davidson Coll, Dept Psychol, Davidson, NC USA
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10.1111/j.1744-6570.2007.00094.x
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Although prior evidence has demonstrated racial differences in employee absenteeism, no existing research explains this phenomenon. The present study examined the roles of 2 diversity cues related to workplace support-perceived organizational value of diversity and supervisor-subordinate racial/ethnic similarity-in explicating this demographic difference among 659 Black, White, and Hispanic employees of U.S. companies. Blacks reported significantly more absences than their White counterparts, but this difference was significantly more pronounced when employees believed their organizations placed little value on diversity. Moreover, in a form of expectancy violation, the Black-White difference was significant only when employees had racially similar supervisors (and thus would expect their companies to value diversity) and perceived that the organization placed little value on diversity.
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页数:28
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