The validation of a diversity climate measurement instrument for the South African environment

Abstract

South Africa is considered as an intriguing environment for studying diversity, yet there is no validated instrument available to assess diversity climate. This is due especially to South Africa’s history of legalised segregation and recent legislative attempts to improve diversity (Jackson & Van de Vijver, 2018). An emerging area within the diversity management domain is on how employees form opinions with regard to diversity – also known as diversity climate. Diversity climate is especially important for organisations, as this concept within the diversity management domain is associated with several diversity-related benefits (Cachat-Rosset, Carillo, & Klarsfeld, 2019).