Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 42 Issue 2

The influence of personal skills development and coping self-efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of women in STEM fields

Lama Blaique, Ashly H. Pinnington, Husam-Aldin Al-Malkawi, Hazem Aldabbas

Despite continuing under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the literature still falls short on identifying and explaining…

Social class as a blessing in disguise? Beyond the deficit model in working-class and higher education studies

Kamil Luczaj

The overarching question of this paper is, “What are the advantages of being an upwardly mobile academic?” The extant academic research on working-class academics has usually…

Customer harassment against LGBTQ workers: highlighting its uniqueness as a group-based customer harassment

Koji Ueno, Lacey J. Ritter, Randi Ingram, Taylor M. Jackson, Emily Daina Šaras, Jason V. D'Amours, Jessi Grace

The authors aimed to identify the nature of customer harassment against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) workers.

Thriving at work with ADHD: antecedents and outcomes of proactive disclosure

Cheryl K. McIntosh, Shelia A. Hyde, Myrtle P. Bell, Paul E. Yeatts

The purpose of this study is to examine factors relating to the decision to proactively disclose a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a concealable…

Board diversity as a determinant of the social performance in the European banking sector

Candida Bussoli, Danilo Conte, Marco Barone

This study intends to test the relationship between banks’ board diversity, detected with age and gender characteristics, and banks’ social performance. The resource dependence…

Examining strategic antecedents of the appointment of women to top management teams

Robert L. Bonner, Steven J. Hyde, Kristen Faile

The purpose of this study is to examine the organizational and environmental antecedents to the appointment of a woman to a non-CEO top management team (TMT) position.

Conceptualizing disability accommodation device acceptance by workgroups through a sociomaterial lens

Mukta Kulkarni, David Baldridge, Michele Swift

The provision of accommodation devices is said to aid organizational inclusion of employees with a disability. However, devices that are meant to enable might only partially…

Stifled from the start: biased allocation of developmental opportunities and the underrepresentation of lesbian women and gay men in leadership

Jennica R. Webster, Gary A. Adams

The goal of this study was to help explain the underrepresentation of lesbian women and gay men (LG) in senior leadership positions by examining bias in the allocation of…