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70 ILR Rev.: J. Work & Pol'y 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/ialrr70 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL ESSAY: INTRODUCTION TO A SPECIAL ISSUE ON INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE (WHAT WORKS?) PAMELA S. TOLBERT AND EMILIO J. CASTILLA* W hile overt expressions of racial and gender bias in U.S. workplaces have declined markedly since the passage of the original Civil Rights Act and the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a half century ago (Eagly and Chaiken 1993; Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, and Krysan 1997; Dobbin 2009), a steady stream of research indicates that pow- erful, if more covert forms of bias persist in contemporary workplaces (Greenwald and Banaji 1995; Pager, Western, and Bonikowski 2009; England 2010; Heilman 2012). In line with this research, high rates of indi- vidual and class-based lawsuits alleging racial and gender discrimination sug- gest that many employees perceive workplace discrimination to be an important, continuing employment problem (Hirsh 2009). Hence, to ensure workplace equity, prevent legal claims of discrimina- tion, and/or rectify past and potential problems of bias, employers have implemented a growing array of organizational policies and practices aimed at reducing discrimination and increasing inclusion. Sometimes these efforts are voluntary; other times they are driven by specific mandates assigned to firms by courts as part of verdicts or settlements in cases involv- ing charges of discrimination. Given the millions of dollars spent on making and monitoring such changes, surprisingly little evidence exists on the effi- cacy of various policies and practices adopted by organizations to address the problems and to capture the benefits of having a demographically diverse workforce. And even less evidence is available on the conditions that may moderate the impact of these policies and practices. *PAMELA S. TOLBERT is the Lois S. Gray Professor of ILR and Social Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University. EMILIO J. CASTILLA is the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Correspondence can be directed to the authors at pain.tolbert@cornell.edu and ecastilla@mnit.edu. ILR Review, 70 (1), January 2017, pp. 3-15 DOI: 10.1177/0019793916675336. ( The Author(s) 2016 Journal website: ilr.sagepub.comn Reprints and permissions: sagepub.comn/journalsPennissions.nav

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