1017: Complexities in Navigating Inequality at the Workplace (19848)

Organizer(s)

• SL

  Serenity Lee

  The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, United States
• JT

  Josephine Tan

  Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States

Discussant(s)

• RP

  Rebecca Ponce de Leon

  Columbia Business School, United States

Presenter(s)

• AA

  Alexis Avery

  U. of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
• JT

  Josephine Tan

  Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States
• JR

  Jacob Roberson

  USC Marshall School of Business, United States
• SY

  Stephanie Yu

  The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania, Canada

Organizations and its members play a role in producing and reproducing the gender and racial inequality reflected in larger society (e.g., Amis, Mair & Munir, 2020; Hebl, Cheng & Ng, 2019). Organizational gatekeepers can perpetuate these disproportionately unequal outcomes, while marginalized employees process and act in response to unequal treatment. Drawing on multiple methods and theories, the present symposium investigates how both gatekeepers and marginalized employees perceive, process, perpetuate and experience the complexities of such inequality in the work context. Across four papers, we consider the nuances of how inequality is perceived and perpetuated by gatekeepers (including skin tone and ideology), while also asking how certain contexts can exacerbate the experience of inequality for marginalized employees (such as resource allocation and organizational culture). Our discussant, Rebecca Ponce de Leon, an expert on inequality in organizations, will guide a discussion about the current research and directions for future research.

Presentations:

• 16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1017: A Legacy of Task Segregation: Skin Tone and Exposure to Adverse Work Environments (19848)
  

  Author: Alexis Avery – U. of Wisconsin, Madison

  Author: Jirs Meuris – U. of Wisconsin-Madison
• 16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1017: Egalitarians Prefer Inequality Only When It Benefits Non-White Women (19848)
  

  Author: Josephine Tan – Stanford Graduate School of Business

  Author: Ramathulaschi Srimurugan – U. of Mannheim

  Author: Hooman Habibnia – -
• 16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1017: The Haves and the Have Nots: Attributions, Fairness, and Divergent Pathways to High Entitlement (19848)
  

  Author: Jacob W. Roberson – USC Marshall School of Business

  Author: Leigh Plunkett Tost – U. of Southern California

  Author: Erin Frey – U. of Southern California -Marshall School of Business
• 16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1017: A Balancing Act: Why Efforts to Improve Work-Life Balance Backfire for East Asian Employees (19848)
  

  Author: Stephanie Jingxian Yu – The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania

  Author: Andrew Carton – The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania