Academic Papers
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Welcome to the Diversity Atlas Academic Papers Repository!
We are delighted to offer you this collection of academic papers on diversity, equity, and inclusion, curated from verified and reputable sources. This resource is designed to provide our members with quick access to valuable research that can inform and enhance your DEI initiatives.
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2021
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Kanika K. Ahuja and Priyanka Padhy
The Cyber Avatar of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Media Analysis of Reports During COVID-19
Background: Whether working at physical workplaces or from the seeming safety of home, women employees continue to be hounded by sexual harassment. During COVID-19, sexual harassment has taken on a cyber avatar and continues to enjoy the protections afforded by ambiguity and inept implementation. Objectives: The study explores how media reported cyber sexual harassment (CSH) during a 1-year period after
2021
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Aneesya Panicker , Avnish Sharma
Ethnocentrism: Enemy of Productive and Happy Multicultural Workplace
Organizations and professionals are usually unaware about the fundamental rationale behind workplace ethnocentrism. Due to globalization today’s workplace are becoming multi-cultural, thus to address and understand the intricacies of ethnocentrism and being sensitive towards the issue is the need of the hour. Effective management of culturally diversified workplace is significant point of concern. As it may germinate challenges before the
2021
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Kendra Lowery
Beyond Representation: African American Administrators’ Experiences as Reflections of Workforce Diversity Perspectives
ABSTRACT The recollections of sixteen African American administrators who were some of the first hired in de/segregated school districts in the North are analyzed in order to understand their work lives and experiences in district processes. Findings are analyzed through the lens of workforce diversity perspectives. Five themes emerged from the data regarding race, African American administrators’ roles and experiences.
2021
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Pallab Kumar Biswas, Helen Roberts, Kevin Stainback
Does women’s board representation affect non-managerial gender inequality?
Research examining gender and corporate boards has explored how women’s representation impacts firm strategy and policy, particularly around corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues related to communities and other relevant stakeholders, the environment, and diversity and equity initiatives. However, fewer studies have examined how women’s representation on boards affects gender inequality in firms. The studies that have been conducted generally focus
2021
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Koen van den Oever, Bart Beerens
Does task-related conflict mediate the board gender diversityeorganizational performance relationship?
The board gender diversityeorganizational performance relationship has been criticized for the absence of tests of the underlying mechanisms of this relationship. This study aims to empirically investigate whether task-related conflict e one of the prime theorized mechanisms of board diversity e indeed mediates this relationship. Consistent with the literature, we theorize how board gender diversity affects task-related conflict, and how
2021
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Joshua Hollands
Work and Sexuality in the Sunbelt: Homophobic Workplace Discrimination in the U.S. South and Southwest, 1970 to the Present
In 2016, PayPal, a multinational financial services company canceled an expansion into North Carolina worth millions of dollars and with hundreds of jobs. The cancellation was in response to the state legislature’s passage of a transphobic law. The Public and Facilities Privacy and Security Act restricted transgender and nonbinary individuals from using public restrooms consistent with their gender identity. The
2021
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Mohammad Qasim, Abdul Qahar, Raza Ullah
Organizational and Demographic Level Diversity Practices and Employees Performance
Purpose – The study’s primary objective was to investigate the relationship between organizational level diversity practices, demographic level diversity practices, and employees` performance at selected higher educational institutions in Kabul, Afghanistan. Findings – The findings support a positive relationship between variables; furthermore, the study revealed high contributive implications in both academic and non – academic arena. Moreover, the research suggests,
2021
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Anne Keizer-Remmers, Vasilena Ivanova & Anja Brandsma-Dieters
To act or not to act: Cultural hesitation in the multicultural hospitality workplace
This article aims to describe the behaviour, feelings and emotions of hospitality professionals regarding the phenomenon of handelingsverlegenheid (which we translate as “awkwardness to act”) in intercultural professional settings. The overall purpose of this study is to understand how middle management employees of the rooms division department of a small-scale commercial learning hotel in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands lead their
2021
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Kahn, J. M., Gray, D. M., Oliveri, J. M., Washington, C. M., DeGraffinreid, C. R., & Paskett, E. D.
Strategies to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in clinical trials
There is a growing need for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in cancer care. One area requiring immediate attention and solutions is equal access and accrual to clinical trials. Increasing DEI in clinical trials is identified as a high-priority area by both the Institute of Medicine1 and the National Cancer Institute (NCI); however, persistent underenrollment of Black, Indigenous, and People
2021
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Hongxia Shan, Amy Cheng, Nasim Peikazadi, Yeonjoo Kim
Fostering diversity work as a process of lifelong learning: A partnership case study with an immigrant services organisation
Diversity work is an area of growing interest for organisations in both the private and public sectors. In a nutshell, the term refers to the work conducted within an organisation that promotes inclusive and equitable engagement with people and communities across social differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and religion. Related research has generated relatively more knowledge about the