CROSS-RACIAL INTERPERSONAL-RELATIONS AND JOB-SATISFACTION

This research focuses on effects of the increased racial/ethnic divers ity among managers in large American corporations. It concentrates on links between two important variables in contemporary corporate/organi zational life:job satisfaction and the quality of cross-racial interpe rsonal relations. It uses a theoretical framework based on Fernandez ( 1981) to predict a positive correlation between quality of black/white cross-racial interpersonal relations and job satisfaction. Results wi th modest effect sizes in each of two samples and qualitative data sup ported the hypothesis. The findings have the practical implication tha t efforts in the organization to improve quality of cross-racial inter personal relations are not antagonistic to attempts to raise levels of job satisfaction.