Three Social Dilemmas of Workforce Diversity in Organizations
A Social Identity Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9889136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sherry K Schneider (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Gregory B Northcraft (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1445-1467 |
| Publication date | 1999-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872679905201105 |
| OpenAlex | W2153705748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 81 |
This paper explores the relationship among three social dilemmas faced by organizations wishing to attain and maintain workforce diversity: the dilemmas of organizational participation, managerial participation, and individual participation. Functional and social category diversity offer benefits for organizations (creativity, adaptation and innovation, and access to external networks), but there are costs which deter organizations from pursuing these benefits. The costs associated with organizational participation in diversity initiatives arise because managers and their employees perceive organizational conflicts and organize their interactions along social identity lines, so that temporal traps and collective fences surround diversity. Resolving the subordinate dilemmas of managerial and individual participation provides the key to resolving the dilemma of organizational participation. Social identity theory is used to understand the dilemmas and to develop possible resolutions, which should make the benefits of diversity more immediately accessible to organizations and society
Business · Dilemma · Diversity (politics · Identity (music · Organizational commitment · Organizational identity · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Social dilemma · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Workforce · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Complex and Contradictory
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Managing a culturally diverse workforce
Multiple Marginality
Socio‐Cultural Incorporation of Skilled Migrants at Work
The tragedy of the uncommons
The paradox of inclusion and exclusion in membership associations
Managing Diversity in U.S. Federal Agencies
Research in Organizational Behavior
Men and women of the corporation
The Social Psychology of Creativity
Demography and Design
Intergroup Relations
Beyond the Contact Hypothesis
Social Dilemmas
The People Make the Place
Cooperative Interaction in Multiethnic Contexts
Rediscovering the Social Group
Groups in contact
The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior
Social Categorization
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Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover
Rediscovering the Social Group
The Logic of Collective Action
Trust and group size in a social dilemma
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Cooperation Theory and Organizations
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Arousal of ingroup-outgroup bias by a chance win or loss
Many hands make light the work
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Cooperative choice in N-person dilemma situation
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Homophily in Voluntary Organizations
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |