Claims of employment discrimination and worker voice

Keith A Bender; John S. Heywood; Michael P Kidd

doi:10.1111/irj.12172

Claims of employment discrimination and worker voice

Keith A Bender
, John S. Heywood
, Michael P Kidd

RMIT University
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Using the U.S. National Study of the Changing Workforce survey, we show that claims of racial and gender discrimination emerge less frequently in workplaces with established worker voice mechanisms. This result accords with the hypothesis that participation enhances perceptions of workplace fairness. We show that while having a supervisor of the same race or gender is associated with reduced discrimination claims, the role of voice tends to be larger when the race or gender of the supervisor is different from that of the worker. This suggests that voice may be particularly important in heterogeneous workplaces.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	133-153
Number of pages	21
Journal	Industrial Relations Journal
Volume	48
Issue number	2
Early online date	26 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12172
Publication status	Published - Apr 2017

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bender, K. A., Heywood, J. S., and Kidd, M. P. (2017) Claims of employment discrimination and worker voice. Industrial Relations Journal, 48: 133–153, which has been published in final form at DOI: 10.1111/irj.12172. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Keith Bender
- Business School, Economics - Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy
- School of Geosciences, Just Transition Lab
- Business School, Centre for Labour Market Research (CeLMR)
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