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

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

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.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 533-546
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9(4)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: out-group favoritism; social identity theory; temporary employees; workplace;

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hippel, Courtney D. von
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2006

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430206067556
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228037
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST