{"id":13119,"date":"2012-05-15T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-15T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T18:05:49","slug":"A-Bamboo-Ceiling-for-Would-Be-Asian-Leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13119","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ for Would-Be Asian Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research suggests that assertive Asian-Americans may be penalized for not adhering to racial stereotypes that peg them more as meek followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compared to their proportion of the North American population, East Asians are overrepresented in universities and in many professional settings.<\/strong> Still, why are they less likely to be promoted to leadership positions compared to Whites and other racial minorities?<\/p>\n

University of Toronto researchers Jennifer L. Berdahl and Ji-A Min conducted four experiments to look into this so-called “bamboo ceiling.” <\/strong>In one trial, they asked survey respondents to read the human-resource record of a business consultant whose last name was either Sutherland or Wong before indicating how much they would like to have the employee as a co-worker. The file also included different supervisor assessments on the employee’s assertiveness, agreeableness, and leadership potential.<\/p>\n

East Asians who don’t conform to racial stereotypes are less likely to be popular in the workplace.<\/strong> “In general, people don’t want dominant co-workers,” says Berdahl, “but they really don’t want to work with a dominant East-Asian co-worker.”<\/p>\n

Berdahl says managers and coworkers should be wary of this tendency against East Asian employees that exhibit leader-like behavior.<\/strong> She says, “The bias lies within observers and it’s ultimately their responsibility.”<\/p>\n

The full study, “Prescriptive Stereotypes and Workplace Consequences for East Asians in North America,” (PDF)<\/a> is published in the journal Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology<\/a>.<\/em>
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