The isolated choice effect: An underlying psychological mechanism influencing racial diversity in organizations.

ABSTRACT: With the view toward improving the racial diversity in organizations, this work seeks to uncover the reasons why larger groups have an advantage in terms of job opportunities. Based on people's preference for diversity in commodity selection, we propose a potential feature that may exist in human resource management and call it the isolated choice effect, which unconsciously affects the racial diversity of organizations. Specifically, when making selections in isolation (i.e., when they are responsible for selecting a single person at a time), people are less likely to choose the one whose race would increase group diversity than when making selections in collections (i.e., when they are responsible for selecting several people at a time). We set up eight experiments (n = 2,7

SUBMITTER: Luo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9435528 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature