Chandel, Shanya Effect of Race-Occupation Fit and Leadership Prototypes on Leadership Perceptions of Minorities in Leadership Positions. 2022. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.
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Abstract
Although minorities make up a significant part of the U.S. population, a small margin of minorities are in senior leadership roles. A potential explanation behind the demographic makeup is that racial biases may influence leadership perceptions. Accordingly, a particular occupation type could moderate the relationship between race and perceived leader effectiveness, a pattern that can be explained by implicit leadership theory. To test this explanation, this paper focused on specifically Asian Americans and Blacks, in leadership roles in comparison to Whites. To see the effect of race-occupation fit, fictional vignettes of three racially different leaders were created in which each leader was portrayed in three different occupations (i.e., athletics manager, sales manager, engineering manager). A sample of 241 participants rated their assigned target leader through an online survey that contained evaluation items that measured the extent the target leader was perceived as effective. The findings show that the hypothesized relationships were not supported and that overall findings should be interpreted with caution.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Radford University > College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences > Department of Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2022 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 12:56 |
| URI: | http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/829 |
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