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Lakshmi Ramarajan
Professor Ramarajan is the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in... View Details
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nonprofit industry
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
coworkers with a different social identity. Our results highlight the important role of social identity in overcoming self-interest and enhancing intergroup competitions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303862...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2019
- Article
Score Blending: How Scale Response Grouping Biases Perceived Standing
By: Ryan Hauser and Norbert Schwarz
Numerical values—from test scores to credit scores—inform us of our relative standing and can shape our decisions. The values are usually presented in a continuous format (which places scores on a single line) or a grouped format (which separates scores into several...
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Hauser, Ryan, and Norbert Schwarz. "Score Blending: How Scale Response Grouping Biases Perceived Standing." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 32, no. 2 (April 2019): 194–202.
- January 2017
- Article
The Dark Side of Going Abroad: How Broad Foreign Experiences Increase Immoral Behavior
By: Jackson G. Lu, Jordi Quoidbach, F. Gino, Alek Chakroff, William W. Maddux and Adam D. Galinsky
Due to the unprecedented pace of globalization, foreign experiences are increasingly common and valued. Past research has focused on the benefits of foreign experiences, including enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a...
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Lu, Jackson G., Jordi Quoidbach, F. Gino, Alek Chakroff, William W. Maddux, and Adam D. Galinsky. "The Dark Side of Going Abroad: How Broad Foreign Experiences Increase Immoral Behavior." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 112, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–16.
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Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group...
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Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Employees;
Attitudes
Mobasseri, Sanaz, William A. Kahn, and Robin J. Ely. "Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective." Academy of Management Review (in press). (Pre-published online January 4, 2024.)
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Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach
Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities...
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Ramarajan, Lakshmi. "Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach." Academy of Management Annals 8 (2014): 589–659.
- 05 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Leading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations
- Forthcoming
- Article
Backstage Matters: Collective Energy and Information Sharing on Global Teams
By: Wenjie Ma, Leslie A. Perlow and Eunice Eun
It is well documented that information sharing – which is central to team effectiveness – is complicated by cultural and geographical factors. However, little is known about the process of information sharing between subgroups within global teams. Building on Goffman’s...
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Ma, Wenjie, Leslie A. Perlow, and Eunice Eun. "Backstage Matters: Collective Energy and Information Sharing on Global Teams." Academy of Management Discoveries (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 8, 2024.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the...
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- November 2022
- Article
Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank
By: Mina Cikara, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the...
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Prejudice;
Minority;
Hate Crimes;
Reference Dependence;
Prejudice and Bias;
Attitudes;
Demographics
Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 11 (November 2022): 1537–1544. (Pre-Published online August 8, 2022, Featured in HBS Working Knowledge and ABC News.)
- February 2016
- Article
Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate
By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory...
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Status and Position;
Equality and Inequality;
Spoken Communication;
Organizations;
Japan;
United States
Neeley, Tsedal, and Tracy Dumas. "Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate." Academy of Management Journal 59, no. 1 (February 2016): 14–43.
- November 2022
- Article
A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups
By: Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg and Sameer B. Srivastava
When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining...
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Culture;
Machine Learning;
Natural Language Processing;
Symbolic Boundaries;
Organizations;
Boundaries;
Social Psychology;
Interpersonal Communication;
Organizational Culture
Bhatt, Anjali M., Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava. "A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups." Sociological Methods & Research 51, no. 4 (November 2022): 1681–1720.
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation,” which may not only impede better View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network approach can...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
example, offering large financial incentives to the winners of intergroup contests would predictably pull these relationships into cutthroat competition. In addition, in an effort to keep the competition from becoming cutthroat or the...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
the key issues we discuss include trust, conflict, team identity, and intergroup rivalries. In business, competition between groups can provide motivation, but if competition becomes too strong, it can inhibit cooperation and lead to...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice." The authors study race relations in the organization using the conceptual frameworks of intergroup and psychoanalytic theory. Intergroup...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
pressures. Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Humanizing Victims Predicts Intergroup Helping Authors:Amy J. C. Cuddy, Mindi Rock, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting poverty. Crossing the Divide:...
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- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
coach who has great individual parts but can't get them to synchronize. From HBS Alumni Bulletin. Key concepts include: A potentially great team with strong individual contributors can quickly be undone by issues around trust, conflict, team accountability, and View Details
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