Does Good Performance Reduce Bad Behavior? Antecedents of Ethnic Employment Discrimination in Public Organizations.

Equal treatment is a key feature of modern bureaucracy. However, several studies have shown that public organizations discriminate against ethnic and racial minorities to different degrees. Which organizational features explain differences in discrimination is largely unknown. This article proposes...

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Publicado en:Public Administration Review Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 666 - 675
Autores principales: Guul, Thorbjørn Sejr, Villadsen, Anders R., Wulff, Jesper N.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep/Oct2019
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          Guul, Thorbjørn Sejr
          Villadsen, Anders R.
          Wulff, Jesper N.
        affil: Aarhus University
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        Employment discrimination
        Employee attitudes
        Bureaucracy
        Racial minorities
        Race discrimination
        Organizational performance
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          Racial minorities
          Race discrimination
          Organizational performance
      ab: Equal treatment is a key feature of modern bureaucracy. However, several studies have shown that public organizations discriminate against ethnic and racial minorities to different degrees. Which organizational features explain differences in discrimination is largely unknown. This article proposes that organizational performance relates to an organization's likelihood of engaging in employment discrimination and argues that poor‐performing organizations tend to be less open to new ideas and that decision makers in such organizations are more prone to stereotyping behavior. The study combines a field experiment in which applications were sent to real job vacancies in 71 Danish public schools with administrative data on the schools. Bayesian analyses show that minority applicants generally faced discrimination but that they experienced a higher callback rate from better‐performing schools than from poorer‐performing schools. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
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