Job Authority and Perceptions of Job Security

The Nexus by Race Among Men

Bibliographic Data

ID3756785
AuthorsGeorge Wilson (0000-0002-6620-9427, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA), Krysia Mossakowski (University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, USA), Krysia N Mossakowski (0000-0003-0624-0120, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Year2012
Volume56
Issue11
Pages1509-1524
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764212458277
OpenAlexW2334899287
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited43

A benefit of attaining job authority is heightened perceptions of job security, though no research has examined whether (a) this benefit operates equally across racial groups; and (b) if it does not operate equally across racial groups, why not? Analyzing a combined 2004 and 2006 General Social Survey sample of men, we find-among those who have attained an "upper command" level of job authority-that workplace-based marginality (discriminatory allocation and evaluation practices) rather than dispositions (e.g., fatalism, mistrust) learned outside of the workplace account for lower levels of perceived security among African Americans and Latinos, relative to Whites. Additional sectoral analyses indicate that this pattern is especially pronounced in the private, but not public sector. Discussed are the implications of the findings for understanding racial inequality at privileged levels of the American workplace

Demographic economics · Economics · Fatalism · General Social Survey · Inequality · Job attitude · Job performance · Job satisfaction · Job security · Perception · Political science · Private sector · Public sector · Social security · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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