Does social identity theory underlie relational demography? A test of the moderating effects of uncertainty reduction and status enhancement on similarity effects

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 903-926

  Goldberg, Caren B ^a   Riordan, Christine ^b   Schaffer, Bryan S ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

gender in organizations; job employee attitudes; organizational psychology; social psychology; women in organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049354496     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709347158     Document Type: Article

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