Introduction

Starting in 2017, the OB Division will use its Plenary Session to kick off a year-long effort to spotlight one OB topic of interest to scholars, teachers, and practitioners. This year we will focus on the issue of “inequity” in all its forms (e.g., pay inequity, inequity in employment policies, inequity in leadership).

The Plenary Session will follow a workshop format designed to develop projects to be carried out in the coming year that push forward our understanding of inequity. A panel of experts on the topic of inequity will lead the workshop. Please join us for this exciting event!

2017 Plenary Session - AOM OB Division

Title: Shining a Spotlight on Inequity: A Plenary Workshop to Jumpstart a Year of Research, Teaching, and Practice on the Topic of Inequity in All its Forms. Date & Time: Monday, August 7, 2017 - 9:00-11:00am. Location: Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Imperial Ballroom Salon B.


Plenary Session Panelists

Tom Kochan (MIT)
Forrest Briscoe (Penn State)
George Banks (UNC Charlotte)
Jeff Pollack (NC State)
Janaki Gooty (UNC Charlotte)

Inequity Resources

Research & Teaching Resources

Summit

"Generating Pay Equity: Realizing the benefits of the California fair pay law" held on April 27, 2018.  For more info, see the agenda.

Leading Scholars on the Topic of Inequity

Emily Amanatullah, University of Texas - Austin, publications
Dan Ariely, Duke University, publications
Emilio Castilla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stéphane Côté, University of Toronto, publications
Shai Davidai, Cornell University, publications
Marta Elvira, IESE, Spain
Roberto Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, publications
Thomas Gilovich, Cornell University, publications
Martin Heesacker, University of Florida, publications
Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD, publications
Michael Kraus, Yale University, publications
Denise Loyd, University of Illinois, publications
Michael Norton, Harvard Business School
Charles O’Reilly, Stanford University, publications
Adina Sterling, Stanford University, publications
Kathy Phillips, Columbia University, publications
Jacinth Jia Xin Tan, University of California – San Francisco
Lawton Swan, University of Florida,
Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University
Pam Tolbert, Cornell University, publications

Sample Presentations at the 2017 AOM Conference in Atlanta, Ga

  • Examining the Under-examined: How Economic Status, Social Class, and Low Wages Impact Employees. Program Session #: 1101 | Submission: 13229 | Sponsor(s): (OB, HR). Scheduled: Monday, Aug 7 2017 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Hilton Atlanta in Grand Ballroom A
  • Gender Differences In Judgment And Decision-Making As Drivers Of The Gender Gap In Economic Outcomes. Program Session #: 1227 | Submission: 17237 | Sponsor(s): (OB, GDO, HR). Scheduled: Monday, Aug 7 2017 1:15PM - 2:45PM at Hilton Atlanta in Grand Ballroom A
  • Interfacing Hierarchies: Investigating the Confluence of Multiple Hierarchies. Program Session #: 905 | Submission: 15931 | Sponsor(s): (OB, CM, MOC). Scheduled: Monday, Aug 7 2017 8:00AM - 9:30AM at Hilton Atlanta in Grand Ballroom A

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

RECENT POPULAR PRESS ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, AND RESEARCH SUMMARIES

RECENT EDITORIALS

POPULAR PRESS BOOKS

RESEARCH ARTICLES

  • Journal of Management Studies special issue on Social and Economic Inequality: Origins, Consequences, and Implications for Business and Society (May 2018)
  • Alamgir, F., & Cairns, G. (2015). Economic inequality of the badli workers of Bangladesh: Contested entitlements and a ‘perpetually temporary’ life-world. Human Relations, 68(7), 1131-1153.
  • Alon, S., & Haberfeld, Y. (2007). Labor Force Attachment and the Evolving Wage Gap Between White, Black, and Hispanic Young Women. Work & Occupations, 34(4), 369-398.
  • Arnold, D. H., & Doctoroff, G. L. (2003). The Early Education of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 517.
  • Bapuji, H. (2015). Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations. Human Relations, 68(7), 1059-1083.
  • Barrett, R. (2006). Language ideology and racial inequality: Competing functions of Spanish in an Anglo-owned Mexican restaurant. Language in Society, 35, 163-204.
  • Bidwell, M., Briscoe, F., Fernandez-Mateo, I., & Sterling, A. (2013). The Employment Relationship and Inequality: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations. The Academy of Management Annals, 7(1), 61-121.
  • Crane, A. (2012). Modern slavery as a management practice: Exploring conditions and capabilities for human exploitation. Academy of Management Review.
  • Côté, S. (2011). How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 31(0), 43-71.
  • Duncan, G. J., Yeung, W. J., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Smith, J. R. (1998). How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? American Sociological Review, 63(3), 406-423.
  • Edwards, P. K. (2015). Introductory note. Human Relations, 68(7), 1055-1057.
  • Evans, G. W. (2004). The Environment of Childhood Poverty. American Psychologist, 59(2), 77-92.
  • Gray, B., & Kish-Gephart, J. J. (2013). Encountering Social Class Differences at Work: How “Class Work” Perpetuates Inequality. Academy of Management Review, 38(4), 670-699.
  • Hahn, R. (2009). The Ethical Rational of Business for the Poor – Integrating the Concepts Bottom of the Pyramid, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Citizenship. Journal of Business Ethics, 84(3), 313-324.
  • Hamilton, D., Goldsmith, A. H., & Darity, W., Jr. (2008). Measuring the wage costs of limited English: Issues with using interviewer versus self-reports in determining Latino wages. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 30(3), 257-279.
  • Huffman, M. L., & Torres, L. (2001). Job Search Methods: Consequences for Gender-Based Earnings Inequality. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 58(1), 127-141.
  • Kistruck, G. M., Sutter, C. J., Lount, R. B., & Smith, B. R. (2013). Mitigating Principal-Agent Problems in Base-of-the-Pyramid Markets: An Identity Spillover Perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 56(3), 659-682.
  • Konrad, A. M., Yang, Y., & Maurer, C. C. (2016). Antecedents and outcomes of diversity and equality management systems: an integrated institutional agency and strategic human resource management approach. Human Resource Management, 55(1), 83-107.
  • Larsen, C. A. (2016). How three narratives of modernity justify economic inequality. Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.), 59(2), 93-111.
  • MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Webster, C., & Simpson, D. (2005). Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods: The Significance of Class and Place in the Extended Transitions of 'Socially Excluded' Young Adults. Sociology, 39(5), 873-891.
  • Maitner, A. T. (2015). Emotional reactions to unequal payment: The impact of meritocratic ideology and salary negotiability. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(2), 153-172.
  • Martin, S. R., Côté, S., & Woodruff, T. (2016). Echoes of Our Upbringing: How Growing Up Wealthy or Poor Relates to Narcissism, Leader Behavior, and Leader Effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 59, 1880-1895
  • Meuris, J., & Leana, C. R. (2015). The high cost of low wages: Economic scarcity effects in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 35, 143-158.
  • Noonan, A. E., Hall, G., & Blustein, D. L. (2007). Urban adolescents' experience of social class in relationships at work. Journal of vocational behavior, 70(3), 542-560.
  • Parboteeah, K. P., & Cullen, J. B. (2003). Social Institutions and Work Centrality: Explorations Beyond National Culture. Organization Science, 14(2), 137-148.
  • Pearce, J. L. (2005). Organizational Scholarship and the Eradication of Global Poverty. Academy of Management Journal, 48(6), 970-972.
  • Riaz, S. (2015). Bringing inequality back in: The economic inequality footprint of management and organizational practices. Human Relations, 68(7), 1085-1097.
  • Rosenblatt, V. (2012). Hierarchies, Power Inequalities, and Organizational Corruption. Journal of Business Ethics, 111(2), 237-251.
  • Schneider, J. A. (2000). Pathways to opportunity: The role of race, social networks, institutions, and neighborhood in. Human Organization, 59(1), 72.
  • Shin, H. (2008). A New Insight into Urban Poverty: The Culture of Capability Poverty amongst Korean Immigrant Women in Los Angeles. Urban Studies (Sage), 45(4), 871-896.
  • Shrivastava, P., & Ivanova, O. (2015). Inequality, corporate legitimacy and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Human Relations, 68(7), 1209-1231.
  • Soylu, S., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2015). Asymmetric intergroup bullying: The enactment and maintenance of societal inequality at work. Human Relations, 68(7), 1099-1129.
  • Trevor, C. O., Reilly, G., & Gerhart, B. (2012). Reconsidering Pay Dispersion's Effect on the Performance of Interdependent Work: Reconciling Sorting and Pay Inequality. Academy of Management Journal, 55(3), 585-610.
  • Turkheimer, E., Haley, A., Waldron, M., D'Onofrio, B., & Gottesman, I. I. (2003). Socioeconomic status modifies heritability of IQ in young children. Psychological Science, 14(6), 623-628.
  • Xavier-Oliveira, E., Laplume, A. O., & Pathak, S. (2015). What motivates entrepreneurial entry under economic inequality? The role of human and financial capital. Human Relations, 68(7), 1183-1207.