Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk
Racialised professionals’ experiences of selective incivility in organisations: A multi-level analysis of subtle racism
Ozturk, Mustafa Bilgehan; Berber, Aykut
Abstract
This article explores how racialised professionals experience selective incivility in UK organisations. Analysing 22 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, we provide multi-level findings that relate to individual, organisational and societal phenomena to illuminate the workings of subtle racism. On the individual level, selective incivility appears as articulated through ascriptions of excess and deficit that marginalise racialised professionals; biased actions by white employees who operate as honest liars or strategic coverers; and white defensiveness against selective incivility claims. On the organisational level, organisational whitewashing, management denial and upstream exclusion constitute the key enablers of selective incivility. On the societal level, dynamic changes relating to increasing intolerance outside organisations indirectly yet sharply fuel selective incivility within organisations. Finally, racialised professionals experience intersectional (dis-)advantages at the imbrications of individual, organisation and society levels, shaping within-group variations in experiences of workplace selective incivility. Throughout all three levels of analysis and their interplay, differences in power and privilege inform the conditions of possibility for and the continual reproduction of selective incivility.
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Jul 20, 2020 |
| Online Publication Date | Sep 22, 2020 |
| Publication Date | Feb 1, 2022 |
| Deposit Date | Jul 23, 2020 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jan 6, 2022 |
| Journal | Human Relations |
| Print ISSN | 0018-7267 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-239 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720957727 |
| Keywords | Selective incivility; subtle racism; discrimination; diversity; intersectionality |
| Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6284549 |
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