Culture and Identity among Hispanic Managers in an Anglo Business

Ferdman, Bernardo M.; Cortes, Angelica C.

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“…Our work forms a bridge between prior studies of identity and attitudes among Black students (Schmermund et al, 2001) and prior studies of attitudes among Latinos (e.g., Kravitz, 1995;Kravitz & Platania, 1993). Given the growing presence of Latinos in the United States (Ferdman & Cortes, 1992), the study is of applied importance, as well as conceptual importance.…”

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Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students¹

Elizondo

Crosby

2004

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present study examined support for affirmative action among Latino college students as a function of ethnic identity. We found that, overall, Latino students generally endorsed affirmative action and did not feel undermined by it. Of primary interest to us was variation in support for affirmative action as a function of ethnic identity. The more the Latino students identified with their ethnic group, the more they endorsed affirmative action.

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Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students¹

Elizondo

Crosby

2004

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…Future research should strive to collect international samples large enough to examine similarities and differences across specific countries because it cannot be assumed that culture is homogeneous within an entire region such as Latin America, Europe, or Asia. As Ferdman and Cortes (1992) point out, behavior exhibited by Hispanic managers varies greatly with the country they are from (e.g., Mexico compared with Brazil).…”

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A comparison of American and international prototypes of successful managers

Lankau

Chung

2009

J of Leadership Studies

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In the present study, similarities and differences between prototypes of successful managers were examined across four cultural groups: Americans, Europeans, Asians, and Latin Americans. Managers from the hospitality industry (N ϭ 366) used an 84-item attribute inventory to rate a successful middle manager. In addition, Americans' stereotypes of ethnic managers were compared with prototypes held by managers from those ethnic cultures. Specifically, American managers' perceptions of Asian and Hispanic managers were compared against Asian and Hispanic/Latin American managers' prototypes. A high level of correspondence in prototype characteristics was found across the four cultural groups. In addition, American-defined ethnic manager stereotypes also contained profiles similar to cultural prototypes. However, important differences were also detected on many managerial characteristics. Implications of the findings for cross-cultural congruence and areas for future research are discussed.

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“…The premise of the volume is that &dquo;the telling of experience constructs and informs about a culture and its participants&dquo; (p. xiv). This perspective also informs research studies related to diversity in the workplace, such as interviews with Hispanic managers in an Anglo business (Ferdman & Cortes, 1992), women in male-dominated industries (Fine, Morrow, & Quaglieri, 1990), and career-oriented black women (Bell, 1990); and oral histories of male, female, black, white, and Hispanic managers (Cianni & Romberger, 1991).…”

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Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: The State of the Field

Fine

1996

Journal of Business Communication

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The challenge posed by the increasing cultural diversity of the US. workforce is perhaps the most pressing challenge of our times. Scholarship on this increasing diversity has produced general overviews on diversity and related issues, essays that offer a theoretical perspective and suggest research directions for studying diversity in organizations, and few actual research studies of diversity in organizations. The research studies that have been done examine differences in organizational communication in different (particularly national) cultures, examine organizational communication in multicultural contexts, and explore cultural voices in the workplace.Researchers of cultural diversity in organizations must look to alternative theoretical perspectives, such as feminist theories, critical theories, and sociological paradigms to identify the problematics and methodologies appropriate to future diversity studies. This research needs to document different voices in the workforce, especially those that have been marginalized.Multicultural discourses that incorporate the diverse voices of all workers will not only transform our public and private economic organizations, they will also reinvigorate our public discourses and political institutions, strengthening our social, political, and economic well-being. There have been numerous challenges issued to academics to become more involved in the pressing social issues of the day and to demonstrate, in the public arena, the worth of their studies. The study of cultural diversity and of multicultural discourses in organizations offers an opportunity for scholars to do that.

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Culture and Identity among Hispanic Managers in an Anglo Business

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Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students¹

Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students¹

A comparison of American and international prototypes of successful managers

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: The State of the Field

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A comparison of American and international prototypes of successful managers

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Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action as a Function of the Strength of Ethnic Identity Among Latino College Students¹

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