The Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Perceptions of Human Resource Policies and Climate Regarding Diversity

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jul 1994

The Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Perceptions of Human Resource Policies and Climate Regarding Diversity

ELLEN ERNST KOSSEK ; SUSAN C. ZONIA

Abstract

This study shows that race/ethnicity significantly explained differences in attitudes toward human resource policies fostering diversity held by faculty at a large public university in the midwestern United States. Overall, whites' attitudes were less positive regarding diversity programs and other human resource policies relevant to women and minorities than Black's, Hispanic's, and Asian's attitudes were. We also found that individual race and ethnicity significantly explained differences in attitudes toward diversity programs to a greater extent than the demography of the organizational work unit.

Journal: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published: 1994-07-01
DOI: 10.1177/1050651994008003004
Open Access: Closed
Topics: race and writing

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