In recent years businesses in the United States are becoming more diverse places in which to work. Workforce diversity with respect to race, gender, and ethnicity has increased as result of socio-cultural changes, and is to some extent protected by law. While demographic diversity in American businesses has become more apparent, a range of individual differences in the values, attitudes, beliefs, and personalities of their employees is assumed to have existed for some time. However Benjamin Schneider, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, argues that the range of individual differences in the above mentioned psychological variables becomes less common within businesses over time.
Schneider has proposed an attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) framework to explain how organizations beh
People attract people with similar attitudes, beliefs and values. Those in hiring positions will select new employees that they believe will fit well with the rest of the employees. If the wrong person gets selected, after some time his or her coworkers will manage to get rid of him.
After seven short months he was asked to leave by the owner of the company. To replace him they brought in a gentleman from the main office in Sydney. This new person was much more similar to the employees, and his similarities made him a person much easier to work with.
ave (440). The main proposition of Schneider's work is that businesses do not determine behavior. Instead employees determine the company culture. Attraction to a company, selection by it, and attrition from it yield particular kinds of persons wit
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