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2016
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Mukta Kulkarni, Stephan Alexander Boehm, Soumyak Basu
Workplace inclusion of persons with a disability: Comparison of Indian and German multinationals
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on human resource systems with work on disability management practices to outline how multinationals across India and Germany are engaged in efforts to increase workplace inclusion of persons with...
2019
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Eline Ree, Tone Langjordet Johnsen, Anette Harris, and Kirsti Malterud
Workplace inclusion of employees with back pain and mental health problems: A focus group study about employees’ experiences
Aim: To explore how employees experience workplace inclusion of their colleagues or themselves when having back pain or mental health problems. Methods: Three focus group interviews with a sample of 16 kindergarten employees were conducted. Systematic Text Condensation was used...
2021
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Mohamed Atef Abdel Khalk Mousa
Workplace Fun, Organizational Inclusion and Meaningful Work: an Empirical Study
Purpose – This paper addresses nurses working in public hospitals in order to find out how workplace fun may affect their perception of both organizational inclusion and meaningful work. Moreover, and given the novelty of organizational inclusion (OI) and meaningful...
2022
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Stephanie Petty, Lydia Tunstall, Hannah Richardson, Niamh Eccles
Workplace Adjustments for Autistic Employees: What is ‘Reasonable’?
Autistic adults are inadequately supported in the workplace. This study sought a definition of ‘reasonable’ and explored facilitators and barriers to employers making reasonable adjustments. 98 employers and employees across a UK city completed a survey; 15% identified as being...
2014
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George Major, Agnes Terraschke, Emily Major, Charlotte Setijadi
Working it out: migrants’ perspectives of social inclusion in the workplace
This paper explores the concept of social inclusion from the perspective of recent migrants, from language backgrounds other than English, at work in Australia. We adopt an understanding of social inclusion that acknowledges the importance of economic independence, while also...
2024
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Lara C. Stroth, Franziska Jahns, Berit Bode, Maike Stender, Michelle Schmidt, Heiko Baschnegger, Nurith Epstein, Benedikt Sandmeyer, Carla Nau
Workforce strategies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective online survey at intensive care units in Germany
BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe at the beginning of 2020, healthcare systems were forced to rapidly adapt and expand to meet the sudden surge in demand for intensive care services. This study is the first systematic...
2024
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Lara C. Stroth, Franziska Jahns, Berit Bode, Maike Stender, Michelle Schmidt, Heiko Baschnegger, Nurith Epstein, Benedikt Sandmeyer, Carla Nau
Workforce strategies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective online survey at intensive care units in Germany
BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe at the beginning of 2020, healthcare systems were forced to rapidly adapt and expand to meet the sudden surge in demand for intensive care services. This study is the first systematic...
2021
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Joshua Hollands
Work and Sexuality in the Sunbelt: Homophobic Workplace Discrimination in the U.S. South and Southwest, 1970 to the Present
In 2016, PayPal, a multinational financial services company canceled an expansion into North Carolina worth millions of dollars and with hundreds of jobs. The cancellation was in response to the state legislature’s passage of a transphobic law. The Public and...
2015
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Francisco C. Rodriguez
Why Diversity and Equity Matter: Reflections from a Community College President
Why do the issues of diversity and equity have such resonance for me? As a first-generation immigrant, English-language learner from a working-class family, access to higher education and the opportunity that followed was the door to personal discovery and professional...
2020
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Dawna Ballard, Brenda Allen, Karen Ashcraft, Shiv Ganesh, Poppy McLeod, and Heather Zoller
When Words Do Not Matter: Identifying Actions to Effect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Academy
It is time to move past the words—the well-crafted statements circulated by groups and organizations across the academy, the scholarly writing as displacement, the formal and informal critiques—as if they had some recognizable impact. Each of these rhetorical moves can...
2021
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Katalin Tardos, Veronika Paksi
What do equality plans reveal about workplace equality and diversity in higher education and research performing organisations? : a content analysis approach
In the last two decades implementing Equality/Equal Opportunities/Diversity and Inclusion Plans have been becoming more and more widespread across both private and public organisations (Konrad–Linnehan 1995; Edwin 2001; Kalev–Kelly–Dobbin 2006; Coast 2013; Ali–Konrad 2017). Moreover, as a consequence of internationalisation,...
2021
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Judy Lundy /Robyn Keast /Ben Farr-Wharton /Maryam Omari /Stephen Teo /Tim Bentley
Utilising a capability maturity model to leverage inclusion and diversity in public sector organisations
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) bring many benefits to society, particularly in public sector organisations servicing increasingly diverse communities. To deliver public value, government agencies at all levels must more intentionally direct public sector knowledge, skills, and experiences to shape the...
2025
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Zakaria A. Mani
Transitioning to competency-based education in nursing: a scoping review of curriculum review and revision strategies
AIM: This scoping review synthesizes strategies for curriculum review and revision that support the implementation of CBE in nursing programs. BACKGROUND: As the demands of modern healthcare systems evolve, nursing education must adapt to ensure that graduates possess the competencies...
2024
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Evans Kasmai Kiptulon, Mohammed Elmadani, Godfrey Mbaabu Limungi, Klára Simon, Lívia Tóth, Éva Horváth, Anna Szőllősi, Dahabo Adi Galgalo, Orsolya Máté, Adrienn Ujváriné Siket
Transforming nursing work environments: the impact of organizational culture on work-related stress among nurses: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Creating a healthy and conducive nursing work environment is a universal global nursing concern. Work-Related Stress, global nursing and a public health problem that has continued to bedevil the world healthcare systems is of a particular interest. It has...
2022
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Preeti S. Chauhan, Nir Kshetri
The Role of Data and Artificial Intelligence in Driving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The year 2020 changed the world landscape in ways more than ever before. One of the differences that came about was the increased push to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the workplace and in society at large. Data...
2015
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Janet A. Boekhorst
The role of authentic leadership in fostering workplace inclusion: a social information processing perspective
The extant literature has largely overlooked the importance of a climate for inclusion as a response to the growing trend of workplace diversity. This conceptual article contends that an organization-wide change effort comprising several reinforcing processes aimed at creating a...
2018
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Melanie M. Henderson, Kyle A. Simon
The Relationship Between Sexuality–Professional Identity Integration and Leadership in the Workplace
How do members of minority groups navigate identity in the workplace—such as being both a sexual minority and a working professional? This article extends research on identity integration (II)—perceptions of multiple social identities as compatible versus conflicting—to examine the intersection...
2025
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Evans Kasmai Kiptulon, Mohammed Elmadani, Anna Szőllősi, Miklós Zrı́nyi, Adrienn Ujváriné Siket
The race to retain nursing workforce in healthcare: an umbrella review of effectiveness of retention interventions and strategies
BACKGROUND: The global healthcare industry is facing a critical challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled nursing workforce. In recent decades, several retention interventions and strategies have been documented in numerous systematic literature reviews worldwide. However, the available information remains broad...
2025
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Evans Kasmai Kiptulon, Mohammed Elmadani, Anna Szőllősi, Miklós Zrı́nyi, Adrienn Ujváriné Siket
The race to retain nursing workforce in healthcare: an umbrella review of effectiveness of retention interventions and strategies
BACKGROUND: The global healthcare industry is facing a critical challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled nursing workforce. In recent decades, several retention interventions and strategies have been documented in numerous systematic literature reviews worldwide. However, the available information remains broad...
2026
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Hilary Causer, Anna Conolly, Barbara Howard-Hunt, Chinenye Anetekhai, Carrie-Ann Black, Elaine S. Scott, Ruth Riley
The positioning of women nurses as ‘risky’ in United Kingdom suicide prevention policy documents: a critical policy analysis
Introduction: Women nurses in the global north more likely to die by suicide than women in other occupations. Current suicide research is largely quantitative and individualises and pathologises nurses. Suicide prevention policy echoes this approach, focusing on individualised risk factors,...