SD and Racism

George Richardson · Post by **George Richardson** » Wed Apr 23, 1997 9:30 am

I believe the Pugh-Roberts study was about the "introduction of minorities
into management," and was done, as Joel says, many years ago.

...GPR

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GBHirsch@aol.com · Post by **GBHirsch@aol.com** » Wed Apr 23, 1997 6:06 pm

The Pugh-Roberts work on affirmative action programs at Polaroid was done by
Alan Frohman and Jack Pugh at Pugh-Roberts and Henry Morgan from Polaroid.
It was published originally in the Proceedings of the 1973 Summer Computer
Simulation Conference and reprinted in Ed Roberts book on Managerial
Applications of System Dynamics which I believe may be currently available
from Productivity Press in Portland, Ore.

Gary Hirsch
GBHirsch@aol.com

Sharon Els · Post by **Sharon Els** » Thu Apr 24, 1997 9:57 pm

Here you go:

> "Introduction of Minorities in Management" by Frohman, Morgan, and
> Pugh, in Ed Roberts Managerial Applications of System Dynamics.
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>
Pugh-Roberts Associates,
a division of PA Consulting Group
41 Linskey Way
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 864-8880
Fax: (617) 864-8884
E-mail: sharon.els@pa-consulting.com
www.pa-consulting.com/pra

Bill Braun · Post by **Bill Braun** » Sat Sep 20, 1997 6:57 am

Does anyone have any information on the use of system dynamics to model
racism. Primarily I am looking for a model that seeks to explain its
dynamcis; if the model also focuses on or includes intervention
strategies, that is also welcome.

Thank you.

Bill Braun

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rjrahn@microtec.net (R. Joel Rah · Sun Sep 21, 1997 9:25 pm

The only work I know of was done MANY years ago (late 60s early 70s?) by
Pugh-Roberts people for Polaroid Corp. It dealt with equal opportunity
issues and it was published but the reference escapes me now. Try the SD
bibliography or maybe some of the original P-R people will remember it. Good
luck.
R. Joel Rahn
rjrahn@pop.microtec.net

Robert Glitz · Post by **Robert Glitz** » Mon Sep 22, 1997 9:15 am

Hi Bill,

We just finished an SD model to study diversity levels in an
organization (actually, within our org, the Air National Guard) and it
relates various intervention strategies to their effect on levels of
minorities and females.

It doesnt address racism directly, but some of the effects can be seen
in the models consequences. I always wished that we did address the
racism question head-on, but we looked at a more general view of HR
questions instead.

In any case, youre welcome to the model. Its done in Powersim and
runs on the Powersim run-time version (free) just fine.

Robert J. Glitz, LtCol, USAF
(301) 836-8629
glitzr@ang.af.mil
rglitz@erols.com

Bill Braun · Post by **Bill Braun** » Fri Sep 26, 1997 3:59 pm

Many thanks to George, Gary Sharon and Joel for the references. As it
turns out, Ed Roberts book is sitting on my bookshelf and I did not recall
that it addresses the issue, at least in part.

Thanks again to Robert for the model.

Best regards,

Bill Braun
From: Bill Braun <medprac@hlthsys.com>
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