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How Much Diversity is Diversity?

Guidroz, Ashley Michelle
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206122218

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
The role that diversity plays in the workplace has increased over time as more companies adopt diversity management strategies in an effort to increase performance or attract new employees (Hays-Thomas, 2004). Little research has been directed, however, toward understanding how diversity perceptions are impacted by the amount of diversity present in the group. It is easy to identify occurrences when diversity is absent, but we know little about how much diversity is needed for a group to be perceived as diverse (Harrison and Klein, 2007). Drawing largely from research on judgment and decision making (Bazerman, 1993; Levin, Schneider, and Gaeth, 1998; Tversky and Kahneman, 1981) this paper examined how the amount of diversity present and the way the diversity information is framed can influence people's perceptions of group diversity. These questions were examined in the context of two types of demographic diversity: gender and race. Results indicated that people perceived racial/ethnic diversity, described as the 'proportion of Blacks and Hispanics' in the workplace, as being more consistent with their idea of diversity and viewed the organization as making more effort toward managing diversity than when diversity was framed in any other population (i.e., women, men, Whites). Participants also demonstrated a preference for equality and judged the organization to be most successful at managing diversity when the minority and non-minority groups held an equal proportion in the population (i.e., 50%).
Scott Highhouse, PhD (Advisor)
Jennifer Gillespie, PhD (Committee Member)
Mary Hare, PhD (Committee Member)
Margaret Brooks, PhD (Committee Member)
76 p.
Behaviorial Sciences; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Occupational Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Social Research
Workforce Diversity; Judgment and Decision Making; Diversity Theory; Organization Attraction

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  • Guidroz, A. M. (2008). How Much Diversity is Diversity? [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206122218

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Guidroz, Ashley. How Much Diversity is Diversity? 2008. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206122218.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Guidroz, Ashley. "How Much Diversity is Diversity?" Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206122218

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