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What to Do About Employees Who Consciously Exclude Women
Journal
Harvard Business Review
ISSN
0017-8012
Type
newspaper article
Date Issued
2021-11-08
Author(s)
Research Team
Jamie Gloor (Asst. Prof. & PI), Eugenia Bajet Mestre (PhD student), Mihwa Seong (Post-Doc), Huong Pham (Post-Doc): PLAID Lab, CCDI, FIM-HSG
Abstract (De)
Conscious “excluders,” who despite various corporate interventions, continue to treat some folks differently due to their social group membership, may help explain the recent stagnation in progress toward gender equality in organizational leadership. While excluders’ excuses for such behavior vary, the outcome is quite consistent: Excluders disadvantage women’s employment opportunities, perpetuating inequality in various ways. The authors present five concrete practices to try to keep excluders out of your organization in the first place and to identify and appropriately deal with those who are already there. This story of exclusion isn’t exclusive to gender diversity. These practices can detect the bad apples who exclude women, mothers, childfree women, people with disabilities, members of racial and ethnic minorities, mature employees, LGBTQ+ persons, etc.
Language
English
Keywords
diversity
inclusion
exclusion
inclusive leadership
inclusive practices
inclusive organizations
HSG Classification
contribution to practical use / society
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Responsible Corporate Competitiveness (RoCC)
Publisher
Harvard Business Review
Contact Email Address
jamie.gloor@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
264746