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Human Resource Dependence and Organizational Demography: A Study of Minority Employment in Private Sector Companies

Dail L. Fields

School of Leadership Studies, Regent University, 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464, dailfie{at}regent.edu

Jodi S. Goodman

School of Business, Department of Management, University of Connecticut, 2100 Hillside Road Unit 1041, Storrs, CT 06269-1041

Terry C. Blum

DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0510

This study examines the extent to which firms’ human resource dependence explains the representation of Black employees in nonmanagement, management, and top-management jobs. Human resource dependence is a firm-level construct describing the degree to which an organization has difficulty procuring and maintaining supplies of human resources. Indicators of human resource dependence in 154 private sector firms explained the representation of Black employees in nonmanagement and management-level jobs but did not predict Black employee representation in top-management jobs. The results provide new insights into characteristics of firms that shape the demographic makeup of the workplace.

Key Words: human resource dependence • organizational demography • determinants of demography • racial composition of organizations • organization theory

Journal of Management, Vol. 31, No. 2, 167-185 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0149206304271601
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