Does Diversity Management Inhibit or Enhance Merit Recruitment’s Relationship with Quality Governance? Theoretical Propositions and Empirical Verifications of Public Servants’ Willingness to Report Wronging

Christopher Cooper (University of Ottawa)

This article investigates whether diversity management hinders or enhances the relationship merit recruitment has with a central aspect of good quality governance: public servants’ willingness to report organizational wronging. Using survey data of United States federal public servants, this article investigates whether diversity management practices moderate the relationship merit recruitment has with public servants’ willingness to report wrongdoing observed in one’s workplace. The results from various multivariate regression models show that merit recruitment has a positive association with reporting wrongdoing, regardless of diversity management practises. Moreover, the results from the regression models are consistent when the sample is stratified according to gender and race.