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The Subtleties of Subtle Discrimination: An Interesting but Incomplete Picture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2017

Shanna R. Daniels ,
Pamela L. Perrewé  and
Gerald R. Ferris
Shanna R. Daniels*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, College of Business, Florida State University
Pamela L. Perrewé
Affiliation:
Department of Management, College of Business, Florida State University
Gerald R. Ferris
Affiliation:
Department of Management, College of Business, Florida State University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Shanna R. Daniels, Department of Management, College of Business, Florida State University, 821 Academic Way, P.O. Box 3061110, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110. E-mail: [email protected]
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The focal article on subtle discrimination provided by Jones, Arena, Nittrouer, Alonso, and Lindsey (2017) examines questions about the difference between overt and subtle discrimination and the conditions under which discrimination might vary by subtlety, formality, and intentionality. The authors suggest that a dynamic perspective of subtle discrimination would provide a more comprehensive understanding of its correlates. This article addresses two concerns regarding the authors’ proposition to move toward a dynamic model of subtle discrimination. The first concerns definitional issues and overlapping continuums that need to be more clearly distinguished in the model. The second addresses the lack of a theoretically derived process model.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 82 - 86
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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