A Tight or a Loose Grip? How Employee Diversity Affects Managerial Intensity
Presenter： Anders R. Villadsen Associate Professor， Aarhus University
Moderator: Xufeng Zhu Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Discussants: Ciqi Mei Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Xiaoli Lu Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Time：2015.12.11（Friday）15:00-17:00
Venue：Room 422, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University
Abstract
Public sector organizations are becoming increasingly diverse. Yet little knowledge still exists about how employee diversity affects how organizations are managed. This paper studies how gender, ethnic, and age diversity affect managerial intensity (managers per employee) in public organizations. Diversity is predicted to be associated with more managerial intensity. An empirical study drawing on Danish register data suggests that gender and ethnic diversity is related to more managerial intensity. Female dominated workplaces have less managerial intensity than gender integrated and male dominated workplaces. Workplaces with more than 15 percent non-western immigrants similarly are indicated be more managerially intense. Both these findings are moderated by organization size such they diminish in larger organizations. The paper contributes with rare knowledge of organizational outcomes of employee diversity.
Bio
Anders R. Villadsen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University. His main research interests are management and leadership, and employee diversity in the public sector. He has published his research in leading journals such as Journal of PublicAdministration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, and International Public Management Journal. In separate research Anders Villadsen has explored firm-state relations in China. This research is published in Management and Organization Review. He won the 2010 Best Dissertation Award in the Public/Non-profit division at the Academy of Management.
