Workplace Social Capital Effects During Downsizing: An Intersectional Examination of Race, Gender, and Disability | Research Seminar with Brian Rubineau, Associate Professor

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Workplace social capital (WSC) is expected to assist in promotion and protect against dismissal. But WSC can have differing effects among different socio-demographic groups. This paper examines the effects of WSC on promotion and exit and tests for differences in those effects simultaneously by racial category, gender category, and disability status using an intersectional lens. We find significant benefits to workers from more WSC for both promotion and exit outcomes. We find significant evidence of intersectionally-contingent effects of WSC on exit outcomes but not on promotion.

Associate Professor Brian Rubineau is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research investigates how informal social dynamics contribute to inequalities in occupations and labor markets. His research appears in management and sociology journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, and American Sociological Review. He is the recipient of multiple competitive research grants, and he has been a Residential Research Fellow at the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.