Discriminating 7 Little Words Can Change Workplace Outcomes
Policymakers can take steps to create workplaces that are safe and free from discrimination and harassment to the benefit of women, employers, and the economy. We conclude with a brief overview of research on subtle discrimination in the workplace from each of four stakeholder perspectivestargets, perpetrators, bystanders, and alliesand review promising strategies that can be implemented by each of these stakeholders to remediate subtle discrimination in the workplace. Using a set of experiments, the authors show that discrimination reduces work effort of those who are disadvantaged and those who are advantaged by it. A systematic review yielded 338 papers, the majority of which concerned three constructs: Microaggressions, everyday discrimination and workplace incivilities.
This article explores how to recognize, address, and challenge discrimination at work.
Two Words Can Change It All. - Thrive Global
