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Designing effective diversity training: influence of group composition and trainee experience
Author(s) -
Roberson Loriann,
Kulik Carol T.,
Pepper Molly B.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.117
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , diversity training , psychology , popularity , training (meteorology) , composition (language) , cultural diversity , nationality , functional diversity , cognition , homogeneous , social psychology , sociology , ecology , political science , immigration , linguistics , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , meteorology , anthropology , law , biology , thermodynamics
Despite the popularity of diversity training in corporate America, a lack of systematic evaluation has left managers with little guidance on how to design effective diversity training programmes. In this research, we examine how training group composition and trainee experience interact to influence the effects of diversity training on cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes. Results indicate that trainees with prior experience with diversity training responded most positively to training groups homogeneous with respect to racioethnicity and nationality; trainees without prior experience with diversity training were generally unaffected by training group composition. The implications of these findings for the design of diversity training programmes in organizations and future research on diversity training are discussed. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.