When People Would Rather Switch Than Fight: Out-Group Favoritism Among Temporary Employees

This article relies on social identity theory to examine the intergroup attitudes held by temporary and permanent employees toward each other. Because temporary employees represent a low-status group with permeable boundaries, temporary employees were expected to show an out-group bias in favor of p...

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Published in:Group processes & intergroup relations 2006-10, Vol.9 (4), p.533-546
Main Author: von Hippel, Courtney D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Boundaries
Employees
Favoritism
Group dynamics
Human behaviour
Intergroup Relations
Organizational behavior
Social Identity
Social psychology
Status
Studies
Temporary Employment
Theory
Work place
Workers
Workplaces
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Summary:This article relies on social identity theory to examine the intergroup attitudes held by temporary and permanent employees toward each other. Because temporary employees represent a low-status group with permeable boundaries, temporary employees were expected to show an out-group bias in favor of permanent employees. Survey data from 161 temporary and permanent employees revealed this predicted out-group favoritism on the part of the temporary employees on both implicit and explicit measures of intergroup bias. In contrast, the high-status, permanent employee group displayed typical in-group favoritism on both measures. Implications of these results for workplace relations are discussed.
ISSN:1368-4302
1461-7188
DOI:10.1177/1368430206067556