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Professionalizing Diversity and Inclusion Practice: Should Voluntary Standards Be the Chicken or the Egg?

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  • Hays-Thomas, Rosemary
  • Bendick, Marc

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Workplace diversity and inclusion (D & I) practices today are based to a great extent on unevaluated experience and intuition rather than empirical evidence. Would voluntary professional practice standards in this field help to raise the level of current and future practice? Or would they be premature? If developed under 4 principles we describe, we predict the former. However, this positive outcome will also require industrial and organizational (I–O) psychologists to join their D & I colleagues in expanding research on D & I practices, strengthening the skills of D & I practitioners, assisting employers to avoid self-incrimination, and enhancing employer commitment to D & I itself. I–O psychologists should also be aware of other implications of D & I practice standards for their work.

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  • Hays-Thomas, Rosemary & Bendick, Marc, 2013. "Professionalizing Diversity and Inclusion Practice: Should Voluntary Standards Be the Chicken or the Egg?," Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 193-205, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:inorps:v:6:y:2013:i:03:p:193-205_00
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    1. Nair, Nisha & Vohra, Neharika, 2015. "Diversity and Inclusion at the Workplace: A Review of Research and Perspectives," IIMA Working Papers WP2015-03-34, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    2. Harald Conrad & Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, 2022. "Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 36(2), pages 199-216, April.
    3. Willard, Greg & Isaac, Kyonne-Joy & Carney, Dana R., 2015. "Some evidence for the nonverbal contagion of racial bias," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 96-107.
    4. Shalini Garg & Snehlata Sangwan, 2021. "Literature Review on Diversity and Inclusion at Workplace, 2010–2017," Vision, , vol. 25(1), pages 12-22, March.

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