Human Resources & Organizational Behavior Tracks > Track 26: Diversity, Inclusion & Exclusion in Organizations

Track Chairs:

• Prof. Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Téluq University, Canada
• Dr. Fedwa Jebli, Rabat Business School, UIR, Morocco
• Dr. Jamal El Baz, University of Ibno Zohr, Morocco

This track aims to foster a debate on how to promote inclusive workplaces, and how to alleviate exclusion within organizational setting (Bernstein et al., 2020). Accordingly, we seek to provide a space for discussion on how to maintain diversity/inclusion/exclusion issues as priority topics, whether in firms’ practices (Dobusch, 2021) or in academic research.

The world is becoming more complex, unpredictable, and “normally” changing with technological, social, political, environmental, or economic constant transformations (Hitt et al., 2021). Thus, it is crucial to analyze the effects of this increased complexity on diversity and to re-analyze the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in organizations.

Conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative papers are welcomed.

Potential topics can be but not limited to:

• How inclusion and exclusion occur?
• Insights from Global-South & Global-North perspectives on diversity/inclusion/exlusion
• With the increased digitalization of the world of work, how can HRM strategies and practices help in understanding diversity & inclusion issues in the digitalized workplace?
• The effect of certain practices on the career development, reduction of work-family conflict, recruitment, remuneration, etc. of women, people from diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities…
• Diversity/Exclusion/inclusion and intersectionality
• How can companies alleviate exclusion and promote an inclusive diversity?
• How to better understand the effect of the institutional environment on diversity, exclusion & inclusion?

References

Bernstein, R. S., Bulger, M., Salipante, P., & Weisinger, J. Y. (2020). From diversity to inclusion to equity: A theory of generative interactions. Journal of Business Ethics, 167, 395-410.

Dobusch, L. (2021). The inclusivity of inclusion approaches: A relational perspective on inclusion and exclusion in organizations. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(1), 379-396.

Hitt, M. A., Arregle, J. L., & Holmes Jr, R. M. (2021). Strategic management theory in a post‐pandemic and non‐ergodic world. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 259.