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The concept of workplace 股本 gets a thumbs-up from most businesses and organizations, 但是没有足够的资源来实现它, according to a 电子游戏软件 School of 社会工作-led national study.
最近发布的电子游戏正规平台, a joint effort between BCSSW’s Work Equity Initiative and the 社会 for Human Resource Management, 全球最大的人力资源协会, 提供了对多样性影响的深入电子游戏正规平台, 股本, 和包容, 或者一些, 在美国工作场所的倡议.
使用具有全国代表性的1个样本,062个组织, National Study on Workplace Equity researchers reported that one-quarter of the companies have experienced gender bias (28 percent), 种族偏见(27%), 或在过去两年中对年长员工的偏见(26%). But although 64 percent of the organizations studied view DEI as important or very important, almost the same percentage—62—indicated that little or no resources are prioritized f或者一些 policies and practices.
According to the WEI leadership team—Assistant Professor 小塞缪尔·布拉德利., 马西Pitt-Catsouphes名誉教授, and 教师 Fellow Kathleen Christensen—the national study is designed to examine the root causes of inequities that can be embedded into organizations’ employment systems. WEI的长期目标, 说出三重奏, is to create tools that support employers and practitioners in workplace 股本.
小塞缪尔·布拉德利.马西Pitt-Catsouphes和Kathleen Christensen led the BC省社会工作学院 study on workplace DEI policies.(照片由凯特琳·坎宁安(左)和加里·韦恩·吉尔伯特(中)提供)
Instead of conceptualizing the level of 股本 as being constant across the workplace, 并且贯穿员工在各自工作岗位上的整个任期, the WEI leadership opted to take a more targeted approach by scrutinizing 10 different employment systems that typically are utilized within organizations. 那些拥有最多权益的人, 为了, recruitment and hiring; compensation and benefits; and orientation and onboarding (the processes by which new hires are integrated into the organization). The three employment systems with the least 股本 are: resources and supports (10th out of 10); job structures; and supervision and mentoring.
“传统上, DEI work has a tendency toward heavy focus on awareness building and training, 通过内隐偏见培训等项目, 反骚扰和多元化, 以及某些群体喜欢被识别的名字,布拉德利说. “这些当然很重要, research has shown that these approaches can be ineffective or counterproductive. I can count the number of people in a group, but that doesn’t tell me how included they feel. 我们使用的基准更难达到，但更能说明问题.”
The WEI seeks to collaborate with employers in select organizations to conduct research and apply the findings to practical application through the Equity Innovation Lab, WEI中的一个项目. 实验室, which has worked alongside organizations such as the United Way and is currently partnered with Catholic Charities Boston, aims to utilize its innovative framework to help organizations tackle difficult DEI problems in the workplace.
The survey used in the National Study on Workplace Equity also is the means through which the lab works with organizations, 布拉德利说, 谁注意到实验室的目标是将其产品扩展到全国. “现在我们已经与人力资源管理协会合作收集了这些数据, we will be able to help other organizations assess the 股本 of their employment systems. Our hope is to create a set of helpful toolkits that guide them from insight to action.”
The National Study on Workplace Equity represents a classic application of social work philosophy and practice in what might seems an unfamiliar context—but actually isn’t, say the WEI co-leaders: Social work’s emphasis on evidence-based practice is as useful in helping an organization confront DEI issues as it is in resolving individual and familial problems related to behavioral or mental health issues. 不管是什么设置, social work practitioners help clients understand that it is in their best interest to take an active role in improving the situation.
“Social work education can help us to understand how organizations can be made more equitable, which can be good for the overall organization and the well-being of employees,布拉德利说. “So, 在WEI项目中, we’re talking about getting at root causes to eliminate workplace inequities—like through flexible working arrangements for all employees, 不仅仅是一些. We emphasize that more flexible job structuring makes for equitable working conditions, 这转化为更投入的员工, 一个更成功的组织.
“通过我们提供的数据和基准测试工具, organizations can take the initiative to self-examine and customize solutions to their own issues and challenges.”
The lack of 股本 in certain areas occurs when there is no intentionality in measuring and planning for issues of workplace and 股本, 布拉德利指出, Pitt-Catsouphes, 和克里斯坦森. “虽然在DEI领域发生了很多好的工作, we are trying to help get at the overall experience of 股本 within employment systems. Without a plan for innovating in these employment systems the state of 股本 in any organization may be left to chance.”
BCSSW’s efforts at promoting workplace 股本 also are taking place in the classroom. 2021年秋天, 学校开办了一项证书课程, 领导工作场所的公平和正义, 提高妇女在工作场所的平等地位, 有色人种, 以及其他被边缘化的员工. 学生通过完成三门课程获得证书, 反思的多样性, 消除组织偏见, 创造包容的工作场所.
布拉德利指出, 在学校的早期, its curriculum included such courses as Labor Relations and Principles of Employment Administration. “The idea that social workers can have an impact on workers and the workplace has been around for a long time, 这也是我们教育学生的方式之一.”
The National Study on Workplace Equity can be accessed via the BCSSW Center for Social Innovation, Pitt-Catsouphes是该公司的联合创始人, at blairekidsarts.net/csi.
肖恩·史密斯|大学传播| 2023年2月