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Men and Women of the Corporation
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Who's Displaced First? The Role of Race in Layoff Decisions
TL;DR: The authors found that race significantly affects an employee's layoff chances and that Asians are less likely to be laid off than blacks or Hispanics, while whites are more likely to get fired than non-whites.
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Access Discrimination in Intercollegiate Athletics
TL;DR: The authors examined the representation of racial minorities in intercollegiate coaching positions Data were gathered from 191 NCAA Division I men's basketball programs (60% of the teams' players were minorities).
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Beyond the Business Case: The Need for Both Utility and Justice Rationales for Increasing the Share of Women on Boards
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how gender quotas designed to increase the share of women in senior positions are rationalized and/or justified by those who benefit, and ask: what arguments do the beneficiaries of quotas tend to use when discussing their usefulness?
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The effect of nursing leadership on hospital nurses' professional practice behaviors.
TL;DR: By providing more access to structural empowerment factors for staff, strong unit-level nursing leadership may also influence nurses' self-efficacy, which in turn leads to more professional practice behaviors.
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Antecedents of Board Composition: The Role of Nomination Committees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of board diversity in terms of the characteristics of the NC and found that the presence of non-executive directors on the NC is detrimental for board cohesiveness.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.
Alice H. Eagly,Steven J. Karau +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence from varied research paradigms substantiates that consequences of perceived incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles are more difficult for women to become leaders and to achieve success in leadership roles.
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Economics and Identity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.
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Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
TL;DR: In this article, an emotion-management perspective is proposed as a lens through which to inspect the self, interaction, and structure of emotion, arguing that emotion can be and ofter is subject to acts of management.
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What is agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma.
Jennifer Crocker,Brenda Major +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that members of stigmatized groups may attribute negative feedback to prejudice against their group, compare their outcomes with those of the ingroup, rather than with the relatively advantaged outgroup, and selectively devalue those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and value those dimensions that their group excels.