Homogeneous decision-making's impact on African-American males seeking leadership positions

The purpose of this study was to research the impact of nonprofit leaders' social views and educational levels on their selection decisions of African-American males to key leadership positions within nonprofit organizations. The research sought to fill a research gap by exploring the reasoning behind nonprofit leaders' hiring decisions by analyzing correlations between the leaders' societal views and educational level and the likeliness of selecting an African American male to a supervisory position or higher. The study surveyed the actual hiring managers, responsible for making the selection decision. The results were not consistent with the facts obtained from the literature review. The findings indicated a negligible to no correlation between the respondents' societal views, educational levels, and the likeliness of selecting and African American male to a leadership position. In other words, the data analysis did not reveal any significant relationships between the respondents' societal views and educational level and their likeliness to select and African American male to a supervisory position or higher, contrary to the literature. The null hypotheses that there exists no correlation between the hiring managers' societal views and education and the likeliness of selecting an African American male to a management level position was not rejected.