When birds of a feather flock together and when they do not: Status composition, social dominance orientation, and organizational attractiveness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Umphress, Elizabeth E.; Smith-Crowe, Kristin; Brief, Arthur P.; Dietz, Joerg; Watkins, Marla Baskerville
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; Tulane University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.2.396
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 396-409
• 关键词: similarity-attraction; social dominance orientation; workforce diversity; RECRUITMENT; organizational attractiveness

摘要

Although similarity-attraction notions suggest that similarity-for example, in terms of values, personality, and demography-attracts, the authors found that sometimes demographic similarity attracts and sometimes it repels. Consistent with social dominance theory (J. Sidanius & F. Pratto, 1999), they demonstrated in 3 studies that when prospective employees supported group-based social hierarchies (i.e., were high in social dominance orientation), those in high-status groups were attracted to demographic similarity within an organization, whereas those in low-status groups were repelled by it. An important theoretical implication of the findings is that social dominance theory and traditional similarity-attraction notions together help explain a more complex relationship between demographic similarity and attraction than was previously acknowledged in the organizational literature.