Asian Americans and workplace discrimination: The interplay between sex of evaluators and the perception of social skills

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Lai ◽  
Linda C. Babcock
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Workplace Discrimination

The Model Minority Thesis and Workplace Discrimination of Asian Americans

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Lai
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Traditional Paradigm ◽  
Missed Opportunity

In the focal article, Ruggs et al. (2013) observed that there is a dearth of racial discrimination research beyond the traditional White–Black or White–nonWhite comparisons in the industrial–organizational (I–O) literature and urged researchers to treat each minority race separately because individuals may have unique experiences with discrimination based on different racial stereotypes associated with their race/ethnicity. I agree with the above assessments. Moreover, I argue that the overlook of negative consequences of positive stereotypes of some marginalized groups, such as Asian Americans, is another “missed opportunity” that has not been addressed in the focal article. Specifically, the traditional paradigm, which tends to exclusively focus on how negative stereotypes of a marginalized group (e.g., Blacks, individuals with disabilities) lead to workplace discriminations against them, may be too narrowly focused. In this commentary, I use Asian Americans as an example to illustrate how seemingly positive stereotypes, the model minority thesis, may also lead to workplace discrimination of Asian Americans, an often overlooked minority group in the discrimination literature.

Improvising Social Skills For Teens With ASD

ASHA Leader ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kasthurirathne ◽  
Lacy Alana ◽  
Jim Ansaldo
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills

App-tivate Your Social Skills Groups

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Sean J. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Skills Groups

It’s Elementary: Social Skills Boost Academics

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Preston
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills

Four Simple Steps to Social Skills Success

ASHA Leader ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Jessie Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills

School Matters: What Happens in High School Goes Beyond High School

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Aruna Prasad
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Skills

Social skills learned in high school can help students with ASDs succeed after graduation.

Assessing Social Skills in Health Professional Services

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
Francisco Gil ◽  
Jesús Sanz ◽  
María Paz García-Vera ◽  
José M. León ◽  
Silvia Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Quality Of Health Services

Abstract. The quality of health services depends on the contribution of all the professionals involved in the system, including certain groups, usually forgotten and underrated, such as the health-transport technicians (HTT). With the aim of improving this group's performance, an intervention program, focusing on the development of the workers' technical and social skills, was designed in a collective of enterprises. Information about the first stage of this program, consisting of the assessment of these workers' social skills, is offered in this study. A specific questionnaire was developed: The Health-Transport Technicians Social Skills Questionnaire (HTT-SSQ), made up of three scales (assertive, passive, and aggressive behavior). It was administered to a large sample (N = 530) from the above-mentioned association. The psychometric properties of the questionnaire were analyzed, with quite satisfactory indexes of internal consistency and factor validity, and the group's deficiencies (excess or deficit) were evaluated.

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