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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Overlooked or Undercooked? Critical Review & Recommendations for Experimental Methods in Diversity Research
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jamie Lee Gloor
  • Brooke Gazdag
  • Max Reinwald
Editors
  • Anne Risberg
  • Sine Just
  • Florence Villeseche
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods
ISBN 9780429265716
Place of Publication London
Publisher Routledge
Page Range 16
Date 2020
Abstract Text Diversity research often relies on experiments to make causal claims about the effects of various attributes (e.g., gender or race/ethnicity) on organizationally-relevant outcomes. With this method, scholars intervene, then analyze the effect of the intervention on one or more outcomes. Until now, however, there remains a lack of clear, practical guidance on how to best study the effects of these attributes via experiments, including some of the theoretical and ethical implications that these design and method decisions might entail. Thus, we review the literature on experimental diversity research in organizations, highlighting illustrative publications and their design choices. Throughout, we highlight some strengths and potential pitfalls of these approaches. In line with the approach of this methods anthology, we also describe a recent set of experimental studies on intersecting aspects of diversity by the first author of this chapter (Gloor, Li, & Puhl, 2018) to practically exemplify some of the themes discussed within this chapter. We conclude with a discussion of ethical implications.
Digital Object Identifier 10.4324/9780429265716
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17917
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