Racial Bias/Leadership

Few Minority Leaders

Evaluation of

Leadership Skills

Task Compentcies

Beliefs of Leadership result in Leadership Prototype

Gender

Culture

Politics

Race

Whites get higher perfomance evaluations

Leadership Categorization Theory

Individuals develop categories to help them organize and process information

Prototype represents a central tendency or average characteristic of members of a group

LCT evaluates leaders perceptions of leaders

recognition based process is comparing a target person with a prototype

Person's prototype leads to a match or mismatch of a person's leadership

Sources of exemplars

Current Leader positions

History

Racial Sterotypes

Asian - Positive

African American/Hispanic - negative