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Workforce diversity as enabler for organizational performance: (when) does inclusive HRM help or hurt?

Organizational workforces have never been more diverse in terms of age, gender, race, ethnicity, migration background and other demographics. Because differences influence how employees interact and perform, workforce diversity is one of the most topical and important challenges facing organizations today. Knowledge on how firms can productively deal with workforce diversity is fundamental for the future prosperity of firms and economies overall. Our present challenging context makes successfully managed workplace diversity even more important than ever, as organizations that can use diversity as enabler of firm performance will likely emerge stronger from the ongoing pandemic crisis. Data is needed in order to study diversity and inclusion in organizations and the successful management thereof. This BOF Small Project (Klein Project) implies the start of a large-scale longitudinal, multi-source data collection of Belgian organizations, based on four data sources: (1) organization- and employee-level data from SDWorx; (2) financial information retrieved from the annual reports published in Bel-first; (3) questionnaire data from HR directors; and (4) a website-based content analysis. By updating the data annually, I will build a longitudinal, multi-source (employee-, manager-, and organizational-level) data warehouse of 2,500 organizations that allows for future research projects on a broad range of study questions that also go beyond the focus on diversity and inclusion.
Date:1 Apr 2021 →  31 Mar 2022
Keywords:ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE, INCLUSION, DIVERSITY
Disciplines:Human resource management