"Research on the Discrimination of Marginalized Employees: Fishing in Other Ponts"--Response

[I'm a bit tired of the fishing metaphor.  Argh.]

Nadler et al's article uses the same model of research presented by Ruggs et al., but the journals reviewed are from the field of social psychology.  The authors hypothesized that research on workplace discrimination might also be happening in this field, so they set out to find the top 7 journals and conducted a review of the last 20 years of research (66).

The authors found that some research was being published in these journals, but the numbers were lower than the I-O journals.  There were 14 articles on race, 7 on LGBT, 2 on age and weight, 1 on disability, and none on religion or marital status (67).

The authors concluded that "it is important to look beyond I-O journals when studying workplace discrimination against marginalized groups and to consider conducting more research on under researched marginalized groups" (69).  The authors also suggested using more specific search terms like "Catholic" or "Asian" or "Hispanic," thinking that this might bring forward more results (69).

For me, this response is helpful in providing me with another sphere of psychology that I could consider: social psychology.  Perhaps I can look more into this once I have a better grasp of I-O Psych!

Nadler, Joel T. et al. "Research on the Discrimination of Marginalized Employees: Fishing in Other Ponds." Industrial and Organizational Psychology 6 (2013): 66-70. Web.