The role of diversity practices and inclusion in promoting trust and employee engagement

By S. Downey, Lisa van der Werff, Kecia M. Thomas, V. Plaut. 2015

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This paper investigates the association of diversity practices with an important aspect of workplace well-being, engagement. It was hypothesized that this association would be mediated by trust climate, and that this mediation relationship would be stronger when employees experienced feelings of inclusion in the workplace. Using a sample of 4,597 health sector employees, results indicated that diversity practices are associated with a trusting climate that, in turn, is positively related to employee engagement. Furthermore, the relationship between diversity practices and trust climate was moderated by inclusion. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed along with recommendations for future research.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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• Impact of Perceived Organizational Support on OCB in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary: Employee Engagement and Affective Commitment as Mediators (2021, background): “Different antecedents of employees’ engagement in previous literature are specified, and some of these antecedents are diversity management practices [49,50], green HRM [51], organizational justice [52–54], organizational commitment [55], leadership [56] conflict management [57] perceived organizati”