U sing membership in a racial group as a qualification B asing decisions on ethnicityrace to increase organizational effectiveness read profits Term Used by John D Skrentny 2013 After Civil Rights ID: 378686
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Racial Realism
Using membership in a racial group as a qualificationBasing decisions on ethnicity/race to increase organizational effectiveness (read: profits)Slide2
Term Used by John D. Skrentny (2013)Slide3
After Civil Rights: A Synopsis
Only Minorities Need ApplySlide4
Racial Realism
Facts About Race/Color Discrimination“Title VII also does not permit racially motivated decisions driven by business concerns – for example, concerns about the effect on employee relations, or the negative reaction of clients or customers” (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).Slide5
Racial Realism:
How about Positive Reactions of Clients or Customers?Racially match
physicians
and patients to improve health
care
Place minority
teachers
in schools with large numbers of minority students because they supposedly understand their learning styles better and serve as racial role
models
Police departments try to reduce crime and police brutality by racially matching
police officers
and
neighborhoods they serve
M
any
low-skilled
jobs
go to immigrants because employers deem
them more likely to work hard, without complaints and for lower wages, than African-Americans or Whites.
M
atch
African-American, Asian-American, and Latino
sales employees
to corresponding markets because of their superior understanding of these markets, or because customers prefer to see employees of their own race, or both
(e.g., car dealership may have
Black
sales persons approach B
lack customers
to increase the probability of a sale; women too?)Slide6
Influence