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Summary

References

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References

  • ASHBURN-NARDO, LESLIE (01/12/2008). "Fairly Representing the Stereotyping Literature?". Industrial and organizational psychology , 1 (4), p. 412.
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  • McShane, S., Olekalns, M., Travaglione, T. (2013). Organisational behaviour, emerging knowledge, global insights (4th ed.). NSW, Australia: McGraw Hill.

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Case study

  • Landed a job with a prestigious company
  • Had the right personality traits and qualifications to achieve at a high level
  • Was stereotyped and overlooked due to her ethnicity (Chun, 2011)

How to Prevent Stereotyping

  • Stage 1

- Get-to-know-eachother session

- Aim is to replace stereotype with a person

- Find common grounds

  • Stage 2

- Continual positive reinforcement

- Staff recognition

- Praise given to the group as a whole

- Promotion and bonuses ALWAYS be based on merit and performance

- High performers can contradict stereotypes

  • Stage 3

- Stereotyping results in discrimination which is illegal and regressive behaviour

- Employment may have to be terminated

Effects of Stereotyping on Employees

  • Negative personal effects such as forming unfaithful opinions of people, scapegoating and judgementalism.

  • It can prevent emotional identification, cause distress and impaired work performance. (Law Teacher, 2014).

  • Can make victims more aggressive and lack self-control.

  • Victims are unable to make rational decisions and more likely to over-indulge on unhealthy foods. (Macintosh, 2010)

Effects of Stereotyping in the Workplace

  • Creates a hostile workplace, and can form negative relationships between co-workers.

  • Limits management’s ability to make the best use of their employee’s skills.

  • Can lead to a decrease in productivity, increase in dissatisfied customers and a reduction in revenues.

A stereotype free workplace

3 Reasons People Engage in Stereotyping

There are three reasons which may influence the way people may engage in stereotyping.

- Categorisation

- Homogenisation, and

- Differentiation.

Why Do People Stereotype?

Individuals are more inclined to engage in stereotyping when:

-information they have on people is limited

-or even from a lack of motivation.

What is Stereotyping

By:

Andreas Bye, N9260943

Petra Evans, N9184660

Nice Harvey, N9271546

Brianna Walker, N9191887

Maya Sailovic, N8868093

Stereotyping can be defined as:

"The perceptual process in which we assign characteristics to an identifiable group and then automatically transfer those features to anyone we believe is a member of that group” (McShane, Olekalns & Travaglione, 2013, p. 78)

Tutor name: Anne Halton

24.9.14

Semester 2

Introduction

  • What stereotyping is and why we do it
  • Consequenses from stereotyping in a workplace
  • What can be done to prevent stereotyping

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