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