Job Performance Comparisons: Mexican-American and Anglo Employees

For discussion of the influence of the rural-folk cultural background of the Mexican-Americans, see Madsen William , The Mexican-Americans of South Texas (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964); Valdez Bernard , “Contrasts Between Spanish Folk and Anglo Urban Culture Values,” Colorado Department of Institutions, Department of Social Welfare (no date); and Heller Celia S. , Mexican-American Youth: Forgotten at the Crossroads (New York: Random House, 1966).

Shaw Ray , “Overlooked Minority,” Wall Street Journal, 37 (May 3, 1966), p. 1.

For permitting access to personnel data, the authors are indebted to Mr. Clyde C. McCollough, Director of Personnel, City of San Antonio, and to a number of others who prefer to remain anonymous.

For a discussion of this hypothesis, see Schulzinger Marion S. , The Accident Syndrome (Springfield: Thomas, 1956), pp. 183–184.

See Weaver Charles N. , “A Comparative Study of the Job Performance of Spanish-Surname Police Officers in San Antonio, Texas,” Phylon (Spring 1969), 27–33.

See Weaver Charles N. , “Accidents as a Measure of the Cultural Adjustment of Mexican-Americans,” The Sociological Quarterly, forthcoming.

Since the days worked by any one clerk are not independent of one another, no test of significance is applicable to the reported means.