Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1108/edi-01-2023-0022
Ferdinando Paolo Santarpia, Valentina Sommovigo, Laura Borgogni
Purpose Drawing on Shore and colleagues' model of inclusive workplaces (2018) and the perceptions of social context framework (Borgogni et al ., 2010), this study aims to develop and provide a preliminary validation of the Social Drivers of Inclusive Workplaces (SDIW) scale. Design/methodology/approach Using inductive and deductive approaches, items were developed. The resulting pool of 28 items was administrated to 1,244 employees using an anonymous online survey. The factor structure of the SDIW scale was tested through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Reliabilities were estimated. Alternative models were tested through CFAs. Nomological validity and measurement invariance across gender were explored. Findings The EFA revealed a three-factor structure, including inclusive colleagues, supervisors and top management. This solution was confirmed by the CFA and outperformed all alternative models, showing good reliabilities. Measurement invariance across gender was confirmed. Correlations indicated that the SDIW total score and each dimension were positively associated with belongingness needs satisfaction and affective commitment, while negatively related to interpersonal strain, negative acts and turnover intention. Practical implications This study provides practitioners with a reliable tool to map social drivers of inclusion within workplaces in order to design tailored interventions. Originality/value This study contributes to the inclusion literature, as it is the first to provide a scale that simultaneously measures employees' perceptions of inclusive behaviours enacted by the three main social actors within the workplace.
利用Shore及其同事的包容性工作场所模型(2018)和社会背景框架的感知(Borgogni et al .， 2010)，本研究旨在开发并初步验证包容性工作场所(SDIW)量表的社会驱动因素。设计/方法/方法使用归纳和演绎的方法，开发项目。通过匿名在线调查，共有28个问题被分配给了1244名员工。采用探索性因子分析(EFA)和验证性因子分析(CFA)对SDIW量表的因子结构进行检验。估计了可靠性。通过cfa对备选模型进行测试。探讨了不同性别的法效度和测量不变性。结果:员工素质评估呈现三因素结构，包括包容性的同事、主管和高层管理人员。该方案得到了CFA的验证，并优于所有替代模型，显示出良好的可靠性。性别间的测量不变性得到了证实。相关分析表明，SDIW总分和各维度与归属感、需求满意度和情感承诺呈显著正相关，与人际紧张、消极行为和离职倾向呈显著负相关。本研究为从业者提供了一个可靠的工具来绘制工作场所内包容的社会驱动因素，以便设计量身定制的干预措施。原创性/价值本研究为包容性文献做出了贡献，因为它首次提供了一个量表，同时衡量员工对工作场所中三个主要社会行动者所实施的包容性行为的看法。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1108/edi-03-2023-0090
Anita Garvey, Reem Talhouk, Benjamin Ajibade
Purpose Drawing upon the authors’ experiences as minoritised academic scholars within leadership roles of a Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network in the United Kingdom (UK) academe, the authors explored the research question “In what ways do racially minoritised academics use coping techniques and strategies to counter racism and inequality in the higher education environment”. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a collective autoethnography approach accompanied by storytelling, underpinned by a qualitative interpretative process, supported by inductive, data-driven theorising. The authors’ approach is supplemented by the usage of content analysis (Schrieier, 2012) to analyse the data and generate findings. Findings The research findings specifically highlight (1) collectivism, solidarity and belonging, (2) knowledge expansion and critical consciousness, (3) disarming approaches and emotional labour, (4) resistance through setting boundaries and (5) intersectionality and BAME men allyship, as specific approaches for taking forward anti-racism. Research limitations/implications Autoethnographic research has encountered challenges around verification, transparency and veracity of data, and issues have been debated due to its subjective nature (see Jones, 2010; Keeler, 2019; Méndez, 2013). Additional complications arise regarding neutrality and objectivity associated with the researchers' identities and experiences being represented in autoethnographic accounts. The authors acknowledge that the accounts provided are subjective, and have influenced the research process and product. Originality/value Research on the experiences of minoritised academics leading staff equality networks constitutes a research gap. This article offers an original analysis through outlining the authors’ lived experiences in leadership positions of a BAME Network and hope to other minoritised employees undertaking anti-racist work.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1108/edi-03-2023-0085
Nicola Sum, Reshmi Lahiri-Roy, Nish Belford
Purpose Identity, positioning and possibilities intersect differently for South Asian women in white academia. Within a broader migrant community that defines Australian life, these identities and positioning imply great possibility, but pursuing such pathways within academia is a walk on the last strand of resilience. This paper explores this tension of possibilities and constraints, using hope theory to highlight the cognitive resistance evident in the narratives of three South Asian women in Australian academia. Design/methodology/approach The authors use collaborative autoethnography to share their narratives of working in Australian universities at three different stages of careers, utilising Snyder's model of hope theory to interrogate their own goal-setting behaviours, pathways and agentic thinking. Findings The authors propose that hope as a cognitive state informs resistance and enables aspirations to contribute within academia in meaningful ways whilst navigating the terrain of inequitable structures. Originality/value The authors' use of hope theory as a lens on the intersectional experiences of career making, building and progression is a new contribution to scholarship on marginalised women in white academe and the ways in which the pathways of resistance are identified.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1108/edi-11-2022-0311
Patricia Virella
Purpose Narratives about racism and equity in schools have been documented in varying degrees of detail and accuracy in the news media (Farhi, 2012). Thus, race is front and center in the news reports, demonstrating how education policies are detrimental to the Island while also contending that policy drivers of Ley de Reforma Educativa de Puerto Rico (LREPR) are ignoring the racialized consequences of these neoliberal policies. Design/methodology/approach To examine the implementation of LREPR in education discourse in the media, a content analysis on texts in the Puerto Rican media was conducted. To conduct the analysis, an original dataset of texts from the four major newspapers in Puerto Rico: El Nuevo Dia, El Vocero, Primera Hora and The San Juan Daily Star ( n = 119) was created. Findings The study shows how the collective resistance of Puerto Ricans towards LREPR suggests racialized consequences for this “post”-colonial Island as they engage in dialogues about property rights and dispute policy discourse. Data suggests the alarming effects of neoliberalism as perceived by Puerto Rican citizens, while highlighting shared concerns aligned with elements of critical race theory such as colorblindness and property rights. Research limitations/implications This study breaks ground by identifying a new intellectual pursuit of charter schools purchasing land or buildings in marginalized communities. It argues that the news coverage demonstrates how Puerto Rican citizens have illuminated the purchase of land for charter schools, viewing it as an act of colonialism veiled as market competition and economic improvement for the Island. Implications for policy and practice are discussed. Originality/value The findings from this research contribute to how critical race theory is used and conceptualized in the educational leadership field. Additionally, the study contributes to the field of research by conducting a content analysis of newspaper articles in Puerto Rico, looking through the CRT lens to illuminate systemic racism that is present in media accounts of education.
关于学校种族主义和公平的叙述在新闻媒体上以不同程度的细节和准确性被记录下来(Farhi, 2012)。因此，种族是新闻报道的前沿和中心，展示了教育政策如何对岛屿有害，同时也争辩说，波多黎各教育改革(LREPR)的政策推动者忽视了这些新自由主义政策的种族化后果。设计/方法/方法为了检查在媒体的教育话语中执行《低水平生殖权利法》的情况，对波多黎各媒体的文本进行了内容分析。为了进行分析，我们创建了波多黎各四家主要报纸的原始文本数据集:El Nuevo Dia、El Vocero、Primera Hora和the San Juan Daily Star (n = 119)。研究结果表明，波多黎各人对LREPR的集体抵制表明，当他们参与有关产权和争议政策话语的对话时，这个“后”殖民岛屿的种族化后果。数据显示了波多黎各公民所感知到的新自由主义的惊人影响，同时强调了与关键种族理论要素(如肤色盲目性和财产权)相一致的共同担忧。研究局限/启示本研究通过确定特许学校在边缘化社区购买土地或建筑的新知识追求而开辟了新的领域。它争辩说，新闻报道表明波多黎各公民如何揭露为特许学校购买土地的行为，认为这是一种披着市场竞争和改善该岛经济的外衣的殖民主义行为。对政策和实践的影响进行了讨论。独创性/价值本研究的发现有助于批判性种族理论在教育领导领域的应用和概念化。此外，该研究通过对波多黎各报纸文章的内容分析，通过CRT镜头来阐明媒体对教育的报道中存在的系统性种族主义，从而为研究领域做出了贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1108/edi-12-2022-0351
Kate Hutchings, Katrina Radford, Nancy Spencer, Neil Harris, Sara McMillan, Maddy Slattery, Amanda Wheeler, Elisha Roche
Purpose This paper aims to explore challenges and opportunities associated with young carers' employment in Australia. Design/methodology/approach Using a multi-stakeholder approach, this study captures the reflections of stakeholders ( n = 8) and young carers ( n = 10) about opportunities for, and experiences of, paid employment for young carers. Findings Despite many organisations internationally increasingly pushing diversity agendas and suggesting a commitment to equal opportunity experiences, this study found that young carers' work opportunities are often disrupted by their caring role. For young carers to be successful in their careers, organisations need to provide further workplace flexibility, and other support is required to attract and retain young carers into organisations and harness their transferrable skills for meaningful careers. Practical implications The paper highlights important implications for human resource management practitioners given the need to maximise the participation of young carers as workers, with benefits for young carers themselves, employers and society. Originality/value The research adds to the human resource management and work–family conflict literature in examining young carers through drawing on Conservation of Resources theory to highlight resources invested in caring leads to loss of educational and work experience resources. This leads to loss cycles and spirals, which can potentially continue across a lifetime, further contributing to disadvantage and lack of workplace and societal inclusion for this group of young people.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1108/edi-11-2022-0326
Ine Gremmen, Yvonne W.M. Benschop
Purpose The authors aim to contribute to current knowledge on women's networks in organizations by exploring the strategies employed by members of women's networks, Human Resources (HR) management and senior line management to negotiate the role of these networks in their organizations. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ the theoretical perspective of micro-politics to analyze qualitative data they collected in an action research project using open-ended interviews and participant observation. The interviews were conducted with network board and active members, and members of their organizations' HR departments and senior management. Participant observation of the interviewees' interactions took place during facilitated workshops. Findings Adding to the literature, the authors find that members of the different parties employ different micro-political strategies. Many senior HR and management members demand that the networks' activities contribute to the organizations' diversity aims and bottom line. They largely avoid strategic cooperation with the networks. Most network members, in turn, resist the restricted role of the networks as an instrument to realize their organizations' business case. They claim some freedom to independently decide on the networks' strategies and activities. They resist being attributed tasks and responsibilities that they consider to reside with their organizations. Moreover, they try to sustain cooperative relationships with senior HR and management in an advisory role. Originality/value The action research approach enabled the authors to contribute to existing knowledge and extend the micro-politics theoretical perspective to include the collective agency of members of organizational groups and cooperation between these groups.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1108/edi-08-2022-0222
İlkay Baliç
Purpose This article tackles the intersection of mothering and labor through the author's own experience as a feminist mother/manager from Istanbul, Turkey. It aims to revisit the first years of motherhood, exploring the struggle to invent a peculiar maternal subjectivity in opposition and negotiation with the patriarchal institution of motherhood, the new definition of maternal labor in a highly digital, neoliberal context and the issue of marital fairness in a dual-income heterosexual marriage. Design/methodology/approach The article presents an autoethnographic, retrospective and introspective inquiry into the first seven years of the author's mothering experience in order to offer an in-depth exploration of the various aspects of contemporary maternal labor. Findings The article shows how maternal labor has shifted in nature and expanded in scope in a contemporary non-Western context. It investigates the dissolution of the spatial, temporal and sensorial boundaries between the managerial labor dedicated to the workplace, and to the family. Highlighting the similarities of the two forms of labor, the article manifests the materiality, tangibility and visibility of maternal labor. Research limitations/implications Further intersectional studies shall be beneficial to redefine maternal labor in different contexts. Practical implications Departing and diverting from the terms “invisible labor” and “mental load”, the article suggests a shift in terminology to stress the multifaceted medley of managerial tasks mothers undertake today. Originality/value The article provides an original take on maternal labor through the first-hand experience of a middle-class, professional mother from Istanbul, Turkey.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1108/edi-03-2023-0071
Caitlin Vincent, Amanda Coles
Purpose This paper examines the US opera sector as a means for interrogating how varying forms of non-standard work shape gender inequality in the creative industries. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on 16 seasons of opera production data from Operabase.com to conduct a gender-based exploratory data analysis of the key creative roles of conductor, director and designers, as well as the hiring networks through which teams are formed, at the 11 largest opera companies in the United States. Findings The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women's exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector's non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women practitioners' professional visibility and career opportunities. Practical implications The study can help organizations implement strategic hiring practices that acknowledge the relationship between gender inequality and varying forms of non-standard work with the aim of increasing women's representation. Originality/value This study work establishes the scale of gender inequality operating within a sector that has received minimal scholarly attention as a site of employment. The study analysis also offers important insight for the wider creative industries and highlights opportunities to redress gender inequality in other sectors where project-based work is prevalent.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1108/edi-08-2022-0213
Priya Kataria, Shelly Pandey
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the experiences of middle-class working mothers from the ITES (Information Technology Enabled Service) sector in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their experiences of work from home are studied in the backdrop of the ideal worker model at work and the adult worker model at home. Further, the study aims to identify the need for sustainable, inclusive practices for working mothers in Indian organizations to break the male breadwinner model in middle-class households. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach to collect data from 39 middle-class mothers working in MNCs in four metro cities in India. The semi-structured, in-depth interviews focused on their experiences of motherhood, care and work before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings The pandemic made it evident that the ideal worker model in organizations and the adult worker model at home were illusions for working mothers. The results indicate a continued obligation of the “ideal worker culture” at organizations, even during the health crisis. It made the working mothers realize that they were chasing both the (ideal worker and adult worker) norms but could never achieve them. Subsequently, the male breadwinner model was reinforced at home due to the matrix of motherhood, care and work during the pandemic. The study concludes by arguing the reconstruction of the ideal worker image to make workplaces more inclusive for working mothers. Originality/value The study is placed in the context of Indian middle-class motherhood during the pandemic, a demography less explored in the literature. The paper puts forth various myths constituting the gendered realities of Indian middle-class motherhood. It also discusses sustainable, inclusive workplace practices for mothers from their future workplaces' standpoint, especially in post-pandemic times.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1108/edi-03-2023-0092
Muhammad Ali, Mirit Grabarski, Marzena Baker
Purpose Neurodiversity refers to a spectrum of neurological differences. Little is known about the benefits and challenges of employing neurodivergent individuals in the retail industry and how knowing neurodivergent individuals/neurodiversity practices are linked to benefits/challenges. This study provides these insights using the lenses of the value-in-diversity perspective, stigma theory and intergroup contact theory. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from an online survey of retail supervisors and co-workers from Australia, resulting in 502 responses from various retail organizations. Findings The findings indicate that supervisors have higher awareness of neurodiversity and perceived benefits of neurodivergent employees. Knowing neurodivergents was positively associated with perceived benefits and disclosure challenges and negatively associated with equity and inclusion challenges. Neurodiversity practices were positively associated with benefits of neurodivergent employees, negatively associated with disclosure challenges and equity and inclusion challenges in small stores, and positively associated with equity and inclusion challenges in large stores. Originality/value Current empirical research on workplace neurodiversity is scarce. This study provides pioneering evidence for awareness of workplace neurodiversity in the retail industry and the impact of knowing neurodivergent employees/neurodiversity practices on benefits and challenges. It differentiates between supervisors' and co-workers’ perceptions, highlighting the importance of exposure to information in reducing stigma.
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