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Stereotype Threat and Minority Ethnic Employees: What Should Our Research Priorities Be?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Etlyn J. Kenny*
Affiliation:
Birkbeck, University of London
Rob B. Briner
Affiliation:
University of Bath
*
E-mail: e.kenny@bbk.ac.uk, Address: Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2014

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