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Environmental factors and the effectiveness of workforce diversity training
Author(s) -
Hanover Jeanne M. B.,
Cellar Douglas F.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.3920090203
Subject(s) - psychology , diversity (politics) , affect (linguistics) , perception , applied psychology , workforce , social psychology , control (management) , diversity training , environment variable , variables , diversity management , management , ecology , statistics , political science , mathematics , neuroscience , law , economics , biology , competence (human resources) , communication
This study examined the effects of a diversity training workshop on self‐perceptions of behavior and importance of related management practices among ninety‐nine middle managers in a large corporation. It also examined relationships between environmental variables and training criterion variables. It was hypothesized that the workshop would positively affect perceptions of behavior and ratings of importance and that the work and social environments would influence the training outcomes. Analyses were conducted to determine if the environmental variables had direct or indirect effects on the training criterion variables. The study found that those who attended the workshop did rate management practices related to diversity as more important and did perceive themselves as engaging in such practices more than did a control group. The social environment variable indirectly affected posttest importance ratings of diversity‐related management practices and self‐perceptions of behavior through its effect on initial levels of those variables, but the work environment measure was not related to the criterion variables.