Brown Elizabeth R, Phills Curtis E, Kahn Joshua, Mukundan Sadana
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, US.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, US.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 2;15(1):23201. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-04456-9.
There are two schools of thought about how diversity and equity are related to inclusion. The first argues that diversity and equity foster inclusion. The second argues that diversity and equity engender exclusion. The present research investigated the implications of diversity and equity's relationship on a component of inclusion, the feeling of belonging, as it is critical for organizational retention and recruitment. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that for students, faculty, and staff at a public university, feelings of belonging were positively associated with perceptions that the university valued diversity, which was related to campus environmental cues. Study 3 demonstrated that interns' intentions to convert to a fulltime position were related to feeling like they belonged at their employer, which was related to the extent to which they perceived the employer fostered equity. We discuss the implications of these findings for organizational retention and recruitment, especially as they relate to perceptions that the organization values diversity and equity.
关于多样性和平等与包容性是如何关联的，存在两种不同的观点。第一种观点认为，多样性和平等促进包容性。第二种观点则认为，多样性和平等会导致排斥。本研究探讨了多样性和平等之间的关系对包容性的一个组成部分——归属感的影响，因为归属感对于组织的人才保留和招聘至关重要。研究1和研究2表明，对于一所公立大学的学生、教师和工作人员而言，归属感与他们对学校重视多样性的认知呈正相关，而这种认知又与校园环境线索有关。研究3表明，实习生转为全职岗位的意愿与他们在雇主那里的归属感有关，而归属感又与他们对雇主促进公平程度的认知有关。我们讨论了这些研究结果对组织人才保留和招聘的启示，特别是与组织重视多样性和平等的认知相关的启示。
