title: Racioethnicity, community makeup, and potential employees' reactions to organizational diversity management approaches.
abstract: We draw on the values literature from social psychology and the acculturation literature from cross-cultural psychology to develop and test a theory of how signals about an organization's diversity management (DM) approach affect perceptions of organizational attractiveness among potential employees. We examine the mediating effects of individuals' merit-based attributions about hiring decisions at the organization, as well as the moderating effects of their racioethnicity and the racioethnic composition of their home communities. We test our theory using a within-subject policy-capturing experimental design that simulates organizational DM approaches, supplemented with census data for the participants' home communities. Results of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analyses suggest that the manipulated instrumental value for diversity leads to higher perceptions of organizational attractiveness, in part through heightened expectations of merit-based hiring decisions. Further, the manipulated assimilative and integrative DM approach signals are positively related to organizational attractiveness and the effect of integrative DM is strongest for racioethnic minorities from communities with especially high proportions of Whites and Whites from communities with especially low proportions of Whites. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Centre for Workplace Leadership, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne.
authors.forename: Jesse E
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5093-8959
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.affiliation: McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.
authors.forename: Luis L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Martins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010560:Personnel Selection; D044382:Population Groups; D055815:Young Adult