D'Uandre Antoine Drain

Negative Perception Theory D'Uandre Antoine Drain

Racial equality was one of the most critical issues facing African Americans (black people) in the 21st century. Particularly, in the United States labor market, black people, in overwhelming comparison to Caucasians (white people), said that they were treated unfairly in their places of employment. The purpose of this study was to understand the complexities of racial inequality and develop a theoretical model of the constructs that predict perceptions that employees of color had about their workplace arenas in the following areas: respect & treatment, company effectiveness, the job itself, and teamwork & cooperation. Specifically, the researcher explored the following quantitative research questions: (1) to what extent are lack of employee recognition, lack of career opportunities, job dissatisfaction, company ineffectiveness, and high job turnover correlated to employees' race in Fortune 500 companies?; and (2) how do differences in the racial composition of teams influence teamwork and cooperation in Fortune 500 companies?A researcher-created questionnaire was utilized to collect study data. All study procedures took place using an online survey software - SurveyMonkey. The researcher used this online technology to facilitate an internet-based questionnaire and analyzed the collected data. The sample for this quantitative descriptive correctional study consisted of n = 502 with a return rate of 419 participants which is an acceptable return rate of 83.5%, utilizing a stratified random sampling selection process. The hypothesis testing from this study discovered that there was a statistically significant difference for all six hypotheses. In conjunction with statistically testing the six rejected null hypotheses, a detailed analysis was provided to analyze two specific research questions in this study. The number of data pairs for the research question were statistically significant (correlated) to African Americans' perceptive variables in Fortune 500 companies. This study can contribute to organizational leadership by helping corporations better understand the relationship between the imposed unfair treatment, company ineffectiveness, and lack of respect & employee recognition of African American Fortune 500 professionals and the fewer opportunities for advancement, job dissatisfaction, negative perceptions of the job itself, and high turnover rates amongst blacks.