Exam 7: Vive La Difference Theoretical Perspectives on Diversity and Exclusion in the Workplace

An individual's self-esteem that acts as a personal indicator that allows people to monitor inclusion or exclusion reactions toward them from their environment.

Because humans have always depended on others for their basic needs, they are motivated to maintain connections with significant people and social systems in their lives.

Organizational demography has been used as a conceptual framework for diversity for:

What are some limitations of the social identity theory in understanding diversity and exclusion?

Research demonstrates that social and physical pain share common physiological mechanisms as ________________.

Social psychological theories regarding diversity, social identity, and intergroup relations have been developed primarily in two locations - Western Europe and __________________.

Box 7.1: A series of experiments conducted in the middle of the 20th century tested the link associated with _________ identification, perceptions of group prestige, and social categorization.

Men's network cohesion with other men is not correlated with women's limited access to information, knowledge and job opportunities.

Box 7.1: The Binocular Resolution Classical Experiments of Racial Categorization in South Africa: Prestige of Groups, Identification, and Exclusion. The experiment demonstrates that when people classify others into social categories:

_________________ is the process people use to evaluate themselves by comparing their group's members with other groups.

Inclusion in organizational information networks and in decision-making process has been linked to better _____________________.

What theory holds that the root cause for conflict is lack of contact between groups, or contact under unfavorable conditions, and also holds that contact under optimal conditions (e.g. equal status between groups, common goals, intergroup coalition and support of authorities, law, and custom) could reduce prejudice and intergroup conflict.

Avery, McKay, and Wilson's (2008) findings indicate that both African Americans and ________ believe they are more likely to experience race-related discrimination in the workplace than their White counterparts.

What theory emphasizes peoples' striving for justice and views perceptions of injustice as the cause for personal distress and intergroup conflict?

The study of organizational demography is useful for examining the relationship between __________ and exclusion in work organizations.

What is an economic theory that assumes that people act in self-interest and that conflict is caused by people's drive to maximize their own or their group's rewards to the detriment of other groups' interests?

Research indicates that individuals from diverse groups commonly find themselves excluded from networks of information and opportunity. Based on the research, what are some reasons that diverse groups feel excluded?

Several concepts serve as the building blocks of social identity theory and are central to its propositions. Expand on the two concepts of the social identity theory: social categorization and intergroup discrimination; and social identity and social comparison. Why are these concepts the building blocks of the social identity theory?

The social comparison process, as delineate by Festinger, postulates that individuals have the need to evaluate themselves and to assess their relative standing within __________.

Social identity is a perception of oneness with a group of persons.