“…Because countries also vary widely in regards to socio-economic factors, such as the demographic composition of the available workforce, employment rates, and economic situation (Dollar, Kraay, & Bank, 2001), we would expect on Running head: MANAGING DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS 30 the basis of social psychological research showing that people become more ethnocentric and discriminatory when social groups compete for scarce resources (Riek, Mania, & Gaertner, 2006), that a less favorable socioeconomic situation will make it less likely that organizations implement diversity management policies, procedures, and practices. There is some indirect empirical evidence for these ideas (Shaffer, Joplin, Bell, Lau, & Oguz, 2000); for instance, women report lower levels of harassment at work and more attachment to their organization in countries that have more progressive anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation and with a more favorable socio-economic situation. Likewise, research found wide variations in regards to societal culture (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004) which has been linked to organizational policies, procedures, and practices (Brodbeck et al, 2004).…”