LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups: What does the science say?

LGBTIQ+ employees face unique challenges at work such as suffering poorer mental and physical health than their heterosexual colleagues. Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) can play an important role in supporting LGBTIQ+ employees and keeping them connected.

In this article for Workplace Pride, Erdem Meral and I review the academic literature on the LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups. We discuss what they are, what we know about their promises and pitfalls, and how they can be most effective, with the aim to contribute to evidence-based inclusion management in organizations.