Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective

Employees from different racial and gender groups in South Africa tend to differ in their attitudes towards Employment Equity (EE) strategies, particularly, towards preferential treatment in terms of EE. Negative attitudes towards preferential treatment in turn may act as contributing factors to demographic changes towards a more representative workforce being slow in organisations. The objective of the study was to explore factors that influence this difference in employees? attitudes from a Social Identity Theory (SIT) perspective.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Organisational Psychology

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Nujjoo, Sayyideena Aleeshah

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Meyer, Ines

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6836

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6836