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 withinsubject policy-capturing experimental design that simulates organizational DM approaches, supplemented with census data for the pa..