Academic Papers

Empowering inclusion with insightful research.

Welcome to the Diversity Atlas Academic Papers repository!

We are delighted to offer you this collection of academic papers on diversity, equity, and inclusion, gathered from reputable sources across the internet. This resource is designed to provide our members with quick access to valuable research that can inform and enhance your DEI initiatives.

Please note that all papers included in this repository have been collected with respect for and in accordance with the rights of the original authors and publishers.

We hope you find this resource useful and enriching. Happy reading!

2019
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Ronald Busse and Sam Regenberg
Revisiting the “Authoritarian Versus Participative” Leadership Style Legacy: A New Model of the Impact of Leadership Inclusiveness on Employee Engagement
The present quantitative research extends the large body of knowledge on the leader–follower relation. On the basis of Kahn’s (1990) engagement model, we develop a new framework featuring a curvilinear inverted U-shaped relationship between leadership inclusiveness and employee engagement. Our survey data (N = 277), collected in the Financial Services Sector in Europe and North America, reveals that three antecedents
2018
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Melanie M. Henderson, Kyle A. Simon
The Relationship Between Sexuality–Professional Identity Integration and Leadership in the Workplace
How do members of minority groups navigate identity in the workplace—such as being both a sexual minority and a working professional? This article extends research on identity integration (II)—perceptions of multiple social identities as compatible versus conflicting—to examine the intersection of personal identity (sexual minority) and professional identity, and the effects of II on how people influence others. The current
2018
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Matthew Egan
LGBTI staff, and diversity within the Australian accounting profession
Purpose – Large accounting firms lay claim today to a broad focus on staff diversity and inclusion. Related initiatives focus on gender, culture, age and sexuality. This paper aims to seek insight from publicly available discourse provided by the “Big 4” in Australia (Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG and PwC), along with two second-tier firms, into the nature and drivers
2018
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Vincenza Priola, Diego Lasio, Francesco Serri, and Silvia De Simone
The organisation of sexuality and the sexuality of organisation: A genealogical analysis of sexual ‘inclusive exclusion’ at work
This article problematises sexual inclusion in the workplace by theorising the social and historical processes that underpin heteronormativity in organisations. Drawing on a genealogical analysis of sexuality and inclusion in four Italian social firms that support the work and social integration of disadvantaged individuals, the article provides an in-depth analysis of the historical conditions affecting the management of sexualities in
2018
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Gurwinder Kaur Gill, Mary Jane McNally, Vin Berman
Effective diversity, equity, and inclusion practices
Demographics in Canada, and the workplace, are changing. These include population changes due to race, ethnicity, religion/faith, immigration status, gender, sexual identity and orientation, disability, income, educational background, socioeconomic status, and literacy. While this rich diversity can present challenges for patient experiences/outcomes and working environments, it can also present opportunities for positive transformation. For successful transformation to take place, strategies
2018
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Jennifer Slater
The Christian ethic of inclusive leadership within diastratic diversity: employing liminality as an analytical tool
This article discerns the ingredients leadership ought to employ when it functions within the plurifactorial dimensions of the sociological, economic, political, cultural, religious and class diversity. It discerns what qualities enable leadership to befriend and contain diastratic conditions present in a diverse living environment unique to the South African society. For analytical purposes, it employs the art of liminality and
2017
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Edited by Carlos Tasso Eira de Aquino and Robert W. Robertson
Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace: Aligning Initiatives with Strategic Business Goals
In today’s workforce, employees belong to different age groups, races, and ethnicities are of different genders and have different sexual orientation, besides leading, managing, thinking, and learning in diverse ways. There are people in full command of their physical abilities working side by side with other employees with disabilities. And people with different values from different cultures are responsible for
2017
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Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood
Gender non-conformity and the modern workplace: New frontiers in understanding and promoting gender identity expression at work
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves.” –—Steve Maraboli, Ph.D. As the opening quote suggests, when employees can authentically express themselves at work, they tend to be happier and healthier. In today’s modern workplace, HR man- agers are having to increasingly address the many complex issues surrounding gender identity and expression. With the public gender transitions
2017
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Sara J. Baker, Kristen Lucas
Is it safe to bring myself to work? Understanding LGBTQ experiences of workplace dignity
Despite increased efforts by more organizations to be seen as “gay-friendly,” workplaces remain challenging sites for LGBTQ employees to navigate. We examine the ways in which LGBTQ employees experience dignity threats in the workplace and the protection strategies they use to deflect those threats. Interviews with 36 LGBTQ working adults revealed that their dignity is threatened by a range of
2017
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Tina Opie and Laura Morgan Roberts
Do black lives really matter in the workplace? Restorative justice as a means to reclaim humanity
Purpose – Overwhelming evidence suggests that black lives have not and do not matter in the American workplace. In fact, disturbing themes of black labor dehumanization, exploitation and racial discrimination appear throughout history into the present-day workplace. Yet, curiously, organizations and organizational scholars largely ignore how racism and slavery have informed management practice (Cooke, 2003) and contemporary workplace racism. The