The promise of staffing a team with diverse members is that the different perspectives, ideas, and opinions will result in greater performance. The reality is that diverse teams often underperform because people from dissimilar backgrounds often clash. A study of 62 drug-development teams suggests that the key to getting them to work better together and tap…
Executive Summary More than 9,600 people from a range of industries responded to the survey between 18 September and 30 November 2018. The majority (68%) were women. Respondents were from all major sectors of the economy, from education and public services to mining, finance and media. More than half of all respondents (54.8%) had experienced…
Discrimination is any practice that makes distinctions between individuals or groups to disadvantage some and advantage others. People can also be indirectly discriminated against if certain attributes, such as parental status, religion, race or impairment, make them less able or even unable to participate in an activity. The Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (the Act) outlines areas…
This research is presented by the Australian Burea of Statistics. This article is the second in a new series exploring the nature and prevalence of sexual assault, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment in Australia. The first article, Sexual Violence – Victimisation, focused on the experiences of sexual assault and sexual abuse victims. The third and final…
This study builds on the Leading for Change report of 2016, which provided a snapshot of the cultural diversity represented in the senior leadership of Australian organisations and institutions. Our study examines the cultural backgrounds of chief executive officers of ASX 200 companies, federal ministers, heads of federal and state government departments, and vice-chancellors of…
People who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other forms of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws designed to shield them from it. That’s our main finding after analyzing the outcomes of 683,419 discrimination cases filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2012 to 2016 – the most recent…
Did you notice the race of your barista this morning? What about the sex of your mechanic? I have observed that when I shop, most of the employees look like me. When I go to work, most of my co-workers look different from me. If my observations about occupational segregation hold across the labor force,…
This research by the American Psychological Association is summarised as follows: For many people, discrimination is an everyday reality. Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age or sexual orientation. What is discrimination? Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups…
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than 38 million people will enter the labor force between 2016 and 2026.1 Over this decade, the composition of the labor force will become olderand more racially and ethnically diverse.2 As these demographics shift, how will organizations treat individual differences, marginalized groups, and wide-ranging skills, and…
Sexual harassment (SH) is a continuing, chronic occupational health problem in organizations and work environments. First addressed in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology through a 1998 Special Section on Sexual Harassment, we return to this consequential issue. If the goal is to reduce SH in organizations, and we believe that it should be, then…