ABSTRACT This article examines manager-employee relations in democratic South Africa, using an unobtrusive, implicit measure of managers’ racial bias. We test the link between manager automatically activated evaluations of race labels with positive/negative words (implicit racial bias), and employees’ judgement of their manager’s effectiveness, their satisfaction with their manager, and their willingness to engage in extra-role workplace behavior. Results indicated that Indian and white managers were similar in their negative automatic evaluation of African blacks, and that employees of white managers reported higher manager satisfaction, higher manager effectiveness, and a greater likelihood of engaging in extra effort, compared to employees of African black managers. From these results we infer that racial bias has gone ‘underground’ and continues to play a pivotal role in manager-employee relations in ‘the Rainbow Nation’.

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南非的内隐种族偏见：“彩虹之国”中经理与员工的关系有多远？

摘要本文使用对经理的种族偏见的一种不显眼的含蓄量度，考察了民主南非的经理人与雇员的关系。我们测试了经理自动激活的带有正/负字的种族标签评估（内隐种族偏见）与员工对经理的效能，对经理的满意度以及他们参与角色外工作场所的意愿之间的联系。结果表明，与非洲黑人经理的员工相比，印度和白人经理对非洲黑人的负面自动评价相似，白人经理的员工报告的经理满意度更高，经理效率更高，并且付出更多努力的可能性更大。 。