Racial and Gender Bias in Employee Evaluation and Impacts on Discipline

• In Event: Inequities in the Public Sector

Brief Overview

This study finds that organizational outgroup members as female and minority officers are more severely punished for misconduct. The mechanism behind this relationship is the likelihood that complaints against these officers are judged credible.

Authors

• Sean C. Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Courtney L Hahm, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Jill D. Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University-Bloomington