Differential performance appraisal criteria: a field study of black and white managers

Article Abstract:

Although more blacks are now attaining entry level management positions, few have advanced to posts of significant power. In order to test for racial bias in the promotion process, performance evaluations done by 22 middle managers who each had at least one black subordinate manager were studied. The results of the survey support the test hypothesis: social behavior factors were found to be highly correlated with the overall job performance ratings of black managers and not with white managers. In order to cope with these additional evaluation factors, blacks should be made aware of them and organizations should have training that emphasizes understanding cultural and ethnic differences, and more objective appraisal techniques should be instituted.

Social aspects, Research, Surveys, Employee performance appraisals, Race discrimination, Performance appraisals, Middle managers

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Trafficking in human organs: an emerging form of white-collar crime?

Article Abstract:

If organ transplantation technology continues to improve and organ supply continues to decrease, potential transplant recipients will be more likely to make hidden payoffs or to become medical tourists. Many in the US transplant community envision that the number of Americans going abroad for procedures will increase sharply unless solutions to the present organ shortfall can be found. The most viable opption might be closely monitoring a system of financial incentives, such as those endorse by the National Kidney Foundation or the United Network for Organ Sharing.

Laws, regulations and rules, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation

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This is home, this isn't home: Reza Abdoh's Tight Right White

Article Abstract:

The ways in which the piece reworked its basic narrative taken from the film Mandigo are focused to show how Tight Right White's proliferation of signs of race and sexuality affected its representation of identity. An argument is made that Abdoh's cacophony of racial and sexual reference never establishes a redemptive or utopic space beyond race and sex.

Criticism and interpretation, Tight Right White (Play), Abdoh, Reza

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