Racial differences in work attitudes: What you see depends on what you study

Differences in a constellation of work attitudes were studied with respect to black and white employees using a sample of healthcare workers. Prelimin ary analyses using MANOVA indicated that blacks had more positive work atti tudes than did whites. However, systematic analyses of set of covariates in cluding personal, lifestyle, and organizational variables eliminated all ra cial differences in work attitudes. Implications of these findings and dire ctions for future research were discussed.