Supervisor integrity empowers employees to advocate for diversity in problematic climates.

IF 9.4 1区心理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Applied Psychology Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-11 DOI:10.1037/apl0001127

Timothy G Kundro, Brett H Neely, Cindy P Muir Zapata

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Abstract

Supervisors struggle to encourage employees to engage in diversity advocacy-key behaviors that help promote more equitable workplaces. Research hints that one reason for this struggle may be that employees lack the empowerment to engage in such behaviors. Drawing on perspectives that conceptualize diversity advocacy as a moral and virtuous behavior, we integrate research on leadership and empowerment to suggest that supervisor integrity can empower observers to engage in diversity advocacy. In exploring boundary conditions, we draw on performance models to counterintuitively suggest that this effect is strongest when employees perceive a negative diversity climate, as employees see the greatest need for change in these contexts. We test our theory in three complementary studies: A field sample with employees, a preregistered experimental vignette study, and an additional preregistered immersive experiment with a behavioral dependent variable. Our results contribute to theory on diversity, empowerment, and organizational climate. Additionally, we make an empirical contribution by developing and validating a four-item diversity advocacy scale. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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主管的正直让员工有能力在有问题的环境中倡导多元化。

上司很难鼓励员工参与倡导多样性的活动--这是有助于促进工作场所更加公平的关键行为。研究表明，造成这种困难的原因之一可能是员工缺乏参与此类行为的能力。我们借鉴将多元化倡导概念化为一种道德和良性行为的观点，结合有关领导力和赋权的研究，提出主管的诚信可以增强观察者参与多元化倡导的能力。在探讨边界条件时，我们借鉴了绩效模型，反直觉地认为，当员工感知到消极的多元化氛围时，这种效应最强，因为员工认为在这种情况下最需要改变。我们通过三项互补研究来验证我们的理论：一项员工实地抽样调查，一项预先登记的实验小故事研究，以及另一项预先登记的行为因变量沉浸式实验。我们的研究结果为多样性、授权和组织氛围理论做出了贡献。此外，我们还开发并验证了一个由四个项目组成的多元化倡导量表，为实证研究做出了贡献。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。

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Journal of Applied Psychology Multiple-

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17.60

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6.10%

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175

期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including: 1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses). 2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research. 3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.