A field experiment for studying race relations embedded in organizations

✍ Scribed by Clayton P. Alderfer; Robert C. Tucker

• Book ID: 102660166
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1010 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3796
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199601)17:1<43::aid-job732>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

When social scientists conduct research in organizations, they engage in relationships with respondents in order to obtain information. For studies of race relations in organizations, questions arise about how researchers take account of their organizational and racial group memberships. This field experiment tests hypotheses derived from embedded intergroup relations theory about the effects of questionnaire administration procedures and race of respondents on response rate, reactions to the research, perceptions of race relations, and satisfaction. Results provided support for several hypotheses that predict respondents will experience the research and respond differently when they answer questionnaires in race alike group meetings than when they report anonymously by mail.