Perspectives on Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Panel (P24)
IRSPM 2024 April 16-18, 2024, Tampere, Finland
Abstracts of 500 words (including references) due October 23, 2023 at https://irspm2024.exordo.com/.
Authors Guidelines: https://www.irspm.org/conference-2024/conferences/guidelines-for-authors-1.
Panel Co-Chairs
Deneen M. Hatmaker, University of Connecticut, deneen.hatmaker@uconn.edu (corresponding chair)
Rachel Ashworth, Cardiff University
Russell S. Hassan, The Ohio State University
Sarah Maria Lysdal Krøtel, Aarhus University
Amy E. Smith, University of Massachusetts Boston
The management and effects of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have long been of theoretical and practical interest within public management scholarship. Beyond compliance with laws and regulations, diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces are thought to assist public organizations in serving constituents, enabling cultures of fairness and belonging in the workplace, and unlocking creative solutions to hard-to-solve problems in the workplace. But personnel diversity has also been theorized to create management challenges: more diverse organizations may have a harder time collaborating and, as a result, have less success achieving agency goals. Additionally, changing societal and political contexts (e.g., the rise of identity politics and changes in laws/ policies to limit the rights of marginalized populations) further complicate workplace diversity and inclusion efforts. There is an urgent need to examine how these changes affect the public sector workforce, agency DEI efforts, and how public managers and frontline workers manage and respond to these challenges.
To achieve this goal, this panel seeks proposals for papers that will enhance our understanding of public sector workforce DEI within the changing social and political context. We invite the submission of empirical papers employing a variety of methods and designs. We also welcome papers that discuss different theoretical and methodological approaches for studying workforce diversity and its management, underlying mechanisms, and effects.
Specifically, we invite proposals that cover a range of topics and perspectives related to workforce DEI, including, but not limited, to the following:
· Intersectionality,
· Diversity and/in leadership,
· Critical approaches to studying diversity and inclusion,
· Identity and inclusion,
· Workplace incivility as it relates to an inclusive workplace,
· Gender and careers,
· Gendered organizations,
· Work-life balance/conflict,
· Diversity management,
· Diversity and inclusion broadly,
· Representative bureaucracy.
We welcome papers that examine diversity from many perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, race and ethnicity, age, education, religion, disability, language, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and parental status.
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Amy E. Smith
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Boston
AmyE.Smith@umb.edu
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