Journal article
Sex effects on effort attributions in managerial performance evaluation
Organizational behavior and human performance, Vol.21(3), pp.367-378
01/01/1978
DOI: 10.1016/0030-5073(78)90060-0
Abstract
The effects of three sex variables, sex of subject, sex of evaluatee, and sex of evaluatee's subordinates, were examined in an experiment. After reviewing performance data which was identical in all experimental conditions 62 male and 24 female subjects assessed the causes of the observed performance for four conditions: males managing predominately male subordinates, males managing predominately female subordinates, females managing predominately male subordinates, and females managing predominately female subordinates. Despite the comparable performance evidence, both male and female subjects attributed greater effort to managers whose subordinates were predominately of the opposite sex than to managers whose subordinates were predominately of the same sex. These results extend previous attribution research by demonstrating that sex effects on attributions depend not only on the evaluatee's sex, but on evaluatee sex interacting with the larger sexual context of the job. Unwarranted personnel decisions appear likely due to these attribution patterns.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sex effects on effort attributions in managerial performance evaluation
- Creators
- Gerald L. Rose - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Organizational behavior and human performance, Vol.21(3), pp.367-378
- DOI
- 10.1016/0030-5073(78)90060-0
- ISSN
- 0030-5073
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1978
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984963106102771
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