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ARE YOUR D&I EFFORTS HELPING EMPLOYEES FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG?
by Michael Slepian
Diversity brings many benefits to organizations—but it is not enough on its own. An organization with a diverse workforce is not necessarily an inclusive one. Diversity efforts now often fall under the banner of “diversity and inclusion” for this reason, but new research in a forthcoming issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that inclusion may also fall short because it does not necessarily lead to a sense of belonging.1
Employees may feel they don’t belong for any number of reasons, but in each case the result is the same: what researchers term an identity threat. Defined as any situation that makes salient that one is different from ...
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