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SERIES FOREWORD
and policy makers. In the concluding chapter, the editors also present a
model of discrimination that attempts to integrate the ideas on the preced­
ing chapters.
Another major strength of the volume is how it identifies research needs.
These are noted in many of the chapters, and the concluding chapter dis­
cusses specific improvements that future research could make in partici­
pants, settings, obtrusiveness, and degree of participant involvement. This
concluding chapter also describes needed conceptual and empirical schol­
arship. This is particularly important because we want the volume to stim­
ulate research. The more the questions and methodologies are developed
by these experts, the better other researchers can use the information to
do new research. For scholars who are interested in discrimination, this
concluding chapter presents an excellent summary of the important issues
and a roadmap for guiding future research. We all hope this volume will
energize researchers and stimulate new ideas about how to understand
and deal with discrimination in organizations.
The editors and chapter authors deserve our gratitude for clearly com­
municating the nature, application, and implications of the theory and re­
search described in this book. Production of a volume such as this involves
the hard work and cooperative effort of many individuals. The editors, the
chapter authors, and the editorial board all played important roles in this
endeavor. As all royalties from the Series volumes are used to help support
SIOP, none of them received any remuneration. The editors and authors
deserve our appreciation for engaging in a difficult task for the sole pur­
pose of furthering our understanding of organizational science. This is also
the first volume by our new Frontiers publisher, Lawrence Erlbaum Asso­
ciates. We want to express our gratitude to Anne Duffy, our new Erlbaum
editor, who has worked hard to move the series to Erlbaum. She has also
been a great help in the planning and production of the volume.

—Robert D. Pritchard
University of Central Florida
Series Editor, 2003-2008