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, 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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Megan Paull, Maryam Omari, Premilla D’Cruz, Burcu Guneri Cangarli
Bystanders in workplace bullying: working university students’ perspectives on action versus inaction
There is increasing interest in bystanders to workplace bullying, including from human resource management (HRM) perspectives. This paper draws on literature from the fields of sexual harassment and helping behaviour to develop understanding of bystander action and inaction. Part of a project on workplace bullying, this study used online story-based responses from university students in Australia, India and Turkey with
2020
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Anna Halafoff, Andrew Singleton, Gary Bouma & Mary Lou Rasmussen
Religious literacy of Australia’s Gen Z teens: diversity and social inclusion
Australia is a culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse country, however, learning about the religious dimensions of this superdiversity is inadequately reflected in the national school curriculum, notwithstanding recent attempts to address this at the state level in Victoria. Debates regarding the role of religion in school have raged across the country for decades and have impeded the introduction of learning
2020
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Yolande Strengers, Lizhen Qu, Qiongkai Xu, Jarrod Knibbe
Adhering, Steering, and Queering: Treatment of Gender in Natural Language Generation
Natural Language Generation (NLG) supports the creation of personalized, contextualized, and targeted content. However, the algorithms underpinning NLG have come under scrutiny for reinforcing gender, racial, and other problematic biases. Recent research in NLG seeks to remove these biases through principles of fairness and privacy. Drawing on gender and queer theories from sociology and Science and Technology studies, we consider
2020
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Clotilde Coron
What does “gender equality” mean? Social representations of gender equality in the workplace among French workers
Purpose – This work deals with social representations of gender equality in the workplace. Little academic work deals with the way workers define gender equality. My research also deals with the implications of this definition in terms of policy implementation. Design/methodology/approach – This work is based on a mixed-method approach. A quantitative study based on an online survey conducted in
2020
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Lara Steel & Brody Heritage
Inter‐cultural contexts: Exploring the experience of indigenous employees in mainstream Australian organisations
Objective: This study aimed to understand more about the experiences of Indigenous employees within mainstream Australian workplaces. Employment and retention rates for Indigenous employees continue to be disproportionately lower than the mainstream Australian population. The potential impact of the inter-cultural workplace context has featured little in the current research and public discourse on employment and retention rates. This study contributes
2020
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Amisha Bhargava & Marais Bester & Lucy Bolton
Employees’ Perceptions of the Implementation of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation (RAIA) on Job Satisfaction, Job Security, and Employability
The study aimed at qualitatively exploring working adult’s perceptions of the implementation of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation (RAIA) on their job security, job satisfaction, and employability. By means of a cross-sectional and exploratory design, the researchers conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample. The heterogeneous sample came from numerous industries for instance consulting, accounting and finance, and
2019
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Eline Ree, Tone Langjordet Johnsen, Anette Harris, and Kirsti Malterud
Workplace inclusion of employees with back pain and mental health problems: A focus group study about employees’ experiences
Aim: To explore how employees experience workplace inclusion of their colleagues or themselves when having back pain or mental health problems. Methods: Three focus group interviews with a sample of 16 kindergarten employees were conducted. Systematic Text Condensation was used for analysis. Results: The participants emphasized that it was easier to include colleagues whose health problems were specific, especially when
2019
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Carina Kraft, Debora Jeske and Leopold Bayerlein
Seeking diversity? Consider virtual internships
Purpose – The present paper aims to outline the case for diversity gains for employers via virtual internships, while recognizing the role of government and educational support. Design/methodology/approach – In the context of Australian employment statistics about people with disabilities, the actors, key issues and barriers to utilizing virtual internships are explored. Findings – The results of an online survey
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
2019
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PAUL R. DAUGHERTY, H. JAMES WILSON, AND RUMMAN CHOWDHURY
Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Diversity
Artificial intelligence has had some justifiably bad press recently. Some of the worst stories have been about systems that exhibit racial or gender bias in facial recognition applications or in evaluating people for jobs, loans, or other considerations. 1 One program was routinely recommending longer prison sentences for blacks than for whites on the basis of the flawed use of