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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 dem...
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2014
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| author | Nujjoo, Sayyideena Aleeshah |
| author2 | Meyer, Ines |
| author_browse | Meyer, Ines Nujjoo, Sayyideena Aleeshah |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6836 Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective Nujjoo, Sayyideena Aleeshah Meyer, Ines 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. 2014-09-02T09:54:34Z 2014-09-02T09:54:34Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6836 eng application/pdf Organisational Psychology Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Nujjoo, Sayyideena Aleeshah Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
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| title | Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
| title_full | Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
| title_fullStr | Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
| title_short | Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
| title_sort | exploring employees attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective |
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