Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being

Workforce diversity literature highlights adverse effects of surface diversity on employee affect. We examine the applicability of surface diversity effects in the Indian social milieu. Since diversity effects are context-specific, in a first, we test the moderating impact of employee's perceiv...

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Main Authors: Akanksha Jaiswal, Lata Dyaram, Naresh Khatri
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:IIMB Management Review
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389622000684
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description Workforce diversity literature highlights adverse effects of surface diversity on employee affect. We examine the applicability of surface diversity effects in the Indian social milieu. Since diversity effects are context-specific, in a first, we test the moderating impact of employee's perceived organisational politics on the inclusion mediated diversity-well-being link among 617 employees from Indian organisations. Post ascertaining the measurement model fit using AMOS 22, we used PROCESS to test for moderated-mediation effects. Perception of organisational politics moderated the surface diversity–inclusion–well-being link such that inclusion was found to be weaker for employees who perceived high politics. We discuss the implications for managers.
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spelling doaj.art-f2267b1587eb42a8bf7fd0e8314ecd742022-12-22T02:47:38ZengElsevierIIMB Management Review0970-38962022-09-01343195207Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-beingAkanksha Jaiswal0Lata Dyaram1Naresh Khatri2Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Loyola Campus, Chennai 600034, India; Corresponding author.Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, IndiaStrategic HRM & Transformational Leadership, Department of Health Management & Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, United StatesWorkforce diversity literature highlights adverse effects of surface diversity on employee affect. We examine the applicability of surface diversity effects in the Indian social milieu. Since diversity effects are context-specific, in a first, we test the moderating impact of employee's perceived organisational politics on the inclusion mediated diversity-well-being link among 617 employees from Indian organisations. Post ascertaining the measurement model fit using AMOS 22, we used PROCESS to test for moderated-mediation effects. Perception of organisational politics moderated the surface diversity–inclusion–well-being link such that inclusion was found to be weaker for employees who perceived high politics. We discuss the implications for managers.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389622000684Perceived surface diversityWell-beingInclusionOrganisational politics
spellingShingle Akanksha Jaiswal
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Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
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Perceived surface diversity
Well-being
Inclusion
Organisational politics
title Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
title_full Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
title_fullStr Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
title_full_unstemmed Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
title_short Interplay of diversity, inclusion, and politics: Impact on employee well-being
title_sort interplay of diversity inclusion and politics impact on employee well being
topic Perceived surface diversity
Well-being
Inclusion
Organisational politics
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