Just what the doctor ordered : how healthcare workers’ views of diversity practices and ideologies relate to engagement and belonging.

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dc.contributor.authorPandaram, Shalini
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T20:54:44Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T20:54:44Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.description.abstractEffectively managing a diverse workforce is a vital skill for organisations, however, little is known about how congruence between employee’s preferences regarding diversity management, and their perceptions of how their organisation manages diversity, impacts attitudinal and motivational outcomes. The present study aims to address this by exploring whether and how the degree of congruence between observed and desired diversity climate and practices (i.e., diversity-focused mission and values, equal opportunity recruitment and selection, diversity training, diversity advocacy, and diversity climate), and between personal and perceived organisational endorsement of diversity ideologies (i.e., multiculturalism, interculturalism, and colourblindness) influences employee job engagement and sense of belonging. Findings suggest among the New Zealand European sample, congruence had a significant positive relationship with engagement for all diversity variables excluding diversity-focused mission and values. Congruence was also significantly positively associated with sense of belonging across all assessed variables excluding multiculturalism. Job engagement was significantly negatively associated with discrepancy between personal and perceived organisational endorsement of colourblindness, and sense of belonging was significantly negatively associated with discrepancy between ideal and observed diversity climate and all measured diversity ideologies. Among the Māori/Pasifika sample, congruence was significantly positively associated with job engagement and sense of belonging for diversity-focused mission and values. Congruence between ideal and observed diversity training also was significantly positively associated with engagement. Discrepancy between ideal and observed diversity climate and equal opportunity recruitment and selection was significantly negatively associated with both engagement and belonging. Discrepancy also had a significant negative relationship with sense of belonging regarding diversity-focused mission and values, and diversity advocacy.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101745
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/10798
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterburyen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserveden
dc.rights.urihttps://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/thesesen
dc.titleJust what the doctor ordered : how healthcare workers’ views of diversity practices and ideologies relate to engagement and belonging.en
dc.typeTheses / Dissertationsen
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Canterburyen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen
uc.bibnumber3032399
uc.collegeFaculty of Scienceen
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