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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2022
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Francisco Perales, Christine Ablaza, and Nicki Elkin
Exposure to Inclusive Language and Well-Being at Work Among Transgender Employees in Australia, 2020
Objectives. To provide empirical evidence of the positive effects of exposure to inclusive language on trans employees’ well-being. Methods. We leveraged unique data from a large Australian national survey of workplace diversity and inclusion (2020 Australian Workplace Equality Index Employee Survey), focusing on a subset of trans respondents (n5453). We derived self-reported and aggregate-level measures of exposure to transinclusive language
2021
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Eddy S. Ng, Greg J. Sears, Kara A. Arnold
Exploring the influence of CEO and chief diversity officers’ relational demography on organizational diversity management: An identity-based perspective
Purpose – Drawing on the relational demography literature and a social identity perspective, several research propositions in which the authors postulate that demographic characteristics (e.g. gender and race) of senior leaders will influence the implementation and effectiveness of diversity management practices were presented. Specifically, the authors focus on the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Diversity Officer (CEO/CDO) dyad and explore independent and
2021
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Joan Marques
Exploring Gender at Work: Multiple Perspectives
This collective volume was created through a wonderful collaboration of 39 authors, representing five global continents and a wide range of academic and practical disciplines. It reviews gender from the standpoints of inequality in multiple regards, such as through discrimination, stereotyping, maintaining prejudice through oftentimes longstanding, unconscious biases, industry influences, but also based on cultural, religious, political, and other boundaries.
2021
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MANFRED MANGLICMOT, OLIVIA COTTON, SONIA CHEN and JOANNECRAWFORD
Exploring factors contributing to young workers’ vulnerability to work-related harm
New Zealand has experienced significant increases in youth employment rates in the last 20 years with 40 per cent of people employed part-time. This age group has been associated with the second-highest rate of injury claims. At the current time, there is limited information on why young workers in New Zealand are more vulnerable to work-related harm. This project aimed
2023
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Chidozie Umeh | Nelarine Cornelius | James Wallace
Exploring equality, diversity, and inclusion in multiethnic settings: A context-sensitive approach
Organisations, worldwide, have introduced human resource management (HRM) and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies to address the inherent disadvantages experi- enced by employees with diverse social identities in differ- ent national contexts. In this study, we draw on McCall’s comparative intersectional framework and Chadwick’s narrative methodologies on materiality and voice, to inves- tigate employees’ experiences of EDI policies in
2018
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Ellen Ernst Kossek
Exploring an Organizational Science View on Faculty Gender and Work-Life Inclusion: Conceptualization, Perspectives, and Interventions
Although women faculty are increasingly hired into historically male-dominated organizational contexts (STEM disciplines), career equality progress is stalled in terms of recruitment, promotion (advancement to leadership roles such as tenured, full, chaired professorships, senior leadership) (Aguinis, Ji, & Joo, 2018); retention, and equality in nonwork and well-being metrics related to family life and personal recovery & social activities (Kossek &
2022
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Laurie A. Hiemstra, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Sarah Kerslake, MSc, BPhty, Marcia Clark, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Claire Temple-Oberle, MD, MSc, MEd, FRCSC, and Erin Boynton, MD, FRCSC
Experiences of Canadian Female Orthopaedic Surgeons in the Workplace: Defining the Barriers to Gender Equity
Background: Only 13.6% of orthopaedic surgeons in Canada are women, even though there is nothing inherent to the practice of orthopaedic surgery that favors men over women. Clearly, there is a need to identify, define, and measure the barriers faced by women in orthopaedic surgery. Methods: An electronic survey was distributed to 330 female-identifying Canadian orthopaedic surgeons and trainees and
2022
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Perry Zurn, Joseph Stramondo, Joel Michael Reynolds, and Dani S. Bassett
Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Disability: Opportunities for Biological Psychiatry
Given its subject matter, biological psychiatry is uniquely poised to lead STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives related to disability. Drawing on literatures in science, philosophy, psychiatry, and disability studies, we outline how that leadership might be undertaken. We first review existing opportunities for the advancement of DEI in biological psychiatry around axes of
2022
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Harris, Lawana
Examining Workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) With The COMMIT Inclusive Behavior Framework
Efforts to protect marginalized and minority groups from workplace discrimination go back decades: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 established a federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees because of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin (United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, n.d.) Even though a previous study declared that now more than ever,
2022
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Reward Utete
Examining the relationship between employment equity implementation and employee performance at workplace: Evidence from a leading organisation in South Africa
Employment equity has continued to occupy a centre stage in the field of human resource management in the current and forthcoming decades in various countries worldwide. It plays a critical role in promoting the elimination of unfair discrimination and consideration of people from previously disadvantaged groups at the workplace. The paper aims to establish the relationship between employment equity implementation