TY  - INPR
A1  - Danbold, Felix
A1  - Bendersky, Corinne
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Applied
KW  -  Management
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Business & Economics
KW  -  gender
KW  -  diversity
KW  -  leadership
KW  -  followership
KW  -  group prototypes
KW  -  LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS
KW  -  GROUP PROTOTYPICALITY
KW  -  FOLLOWERSHIP
KW  -  GENDER
KW  -  DISCRIMINATION
KW  -  CATEGORIZATION
KW  -  PERSONALITY
KW  -  SALIENCE
JF  - Journal of Applied Psychology
UR  - https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/apl0001038
PB  - American Psychological Association (APA)
N2  - Despite decades of efforts, many organizations still have sexist supervisors?those in supervisory positions who define their profession by primarily stereotypically masculine features. As a result of their ?masculine? professional prototypes, sexist supervisors see their work as a ?man?s job? in which women cannot succeed. Research suggests that one problem posed by sexist supervisors is that they may pass their biased views on to subordinates who endorse them as leaders. To make this less likely, we test in two experiments (N = 1,879) a strategy to reduce subordinates? endorsement of sexist supervisors. We do this by encouraging subordinates to see themselves as low in perceived professional prototype alignment (PPPA)?the extent to which a subordinate perceives their supervisor to share their beliefs about what it means to be a member of their profession?with sexist supervisors. Specifically, encouraging subordinates? to hold less masculine, more ?balanced? professional prototypes, in which they see stereotypically feminine attributes as equally important to the job as stereotypically masculine ones, reduces PPPA with sexist supervisors. Lowering PPPA, in turn, reduces supervisor endorsement, even after accounting for the effects of other established mechanisms of supervisor endorsement. This research sheds new light on the psychology of followership and offers a new way to curb gender bias from the bottom up
ID  - discovery10155811
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
Y1  - 2022/07/28/
AV  - public
EP  - 11
TI  - Perceived misalignment of professional prototypes reduces subordinates? endorsement of sexist supervisors
ER  -