2261: Looking Beyond the Numbers: New Approaches to Understanding Organizational Inequality and Exclusion (14734)

Session Chair(s)

• TC

  Tessa Charlesworth

  Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States
• SM

  Sanaz Mobasseri

  Boston U. Questrom School of Business, United States
• JO

  Jayanti Owens

  Princeton U., United States

Speaker(s)

• TC

  Tessa Charlesworth

  Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States
• SM

  Sanaz Mobasseri

  Boston U. Questrom School of Business, United States
• JO

  Jayanti Owens

  Princeton U., United States
• MA

  Mabel Abraham

  Columbia Business School, United States

Discussant(s)

• EB

  Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell

  Harvard U., United States

In recent decades, organizations big and small, public and private, and across numerous industries have made efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. At the same time, researchers have documented the many ways in which organizations continue to be fundamentally unequal in their treatment of members from historically underrepresented groups, including women and racial and ethnic minorities. There is a growing consensus among researchers that simply increasing the numbers of members from historically underrepresented groups in organizations (achieving “representational diversity”) will ultimately be insufficient to fundamentally improve equity and inclusion within organizations. This symposium brings together leading scholars of organizational inequality who span micro and macro perspectives to interrogate why simply “adding diversity and stirring” will not be enough to address lasting concerns of organizational equity and inclusion. Specifically, the four papers in this symposium utilize multiple complementary methodologies—ranging from natural language processing of historical texts to attitudinal surveys to video experiments—to shed new light on the mechanisms that continue to uphold inequalities even in the face of changing numeric representation of minoritized groups.

Presentations:

• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2261: The Stability of Stigma: Testing Mechanisms of Negative Stereotype Persistence Across 100 Years (14734)
  

  Author: Tessa Charlesworth – Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

  Author: Mark HATZENBUEHLER – Harvard U.
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2261: Defending White Hegemonic Masculinity: A Test of the Projective Identification Hypothesis (14734)
  

  Author: Robin J. Ely – Harvard Business School

  Author: Sanaz Mobasseri – Boston U. Questrom School of Business

  Author: Ivuoma Ngozi Onyeador – -
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2261: Demographic Similarity, Protective Socialization: Paradox of Punishment in Racialized Organizations (14734)
  

  Author: Jayanti Owens – Princeton U.
• 15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2261: Race and Evaluations of Misconduct in Organizations (14734)
  

  Author: Mabel Abraham – Columbia Business School

  Author: Erica Bailey – Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley