Today, Belle Derks and I kicked off our new bachelor course “Making Diversity Work: Building Inclusive Organizations.” Approximately 120 advanced bachelor students will learn about the benefits as well as the challenges of building diverse and inclusive organisations. The course is grounded in social and organisational psychology. In addition, students are introduced to a multidisciplinary approach to diversity and inclusion to gain a multilevel understanding of how to promote D&I at the institutional level, the experiential level, and the symbolic level). In work groups, students will analyze existing D&I initiatives and develop a theoretically sound and evidence-based approach to change these. Students will also practice with effective ways to manage and stimulate D&I in their own work teams.
Being part of the action, the discussion and the decisionmaking
Jessica Hendriks from Notariaat Magazine interviewed me for this interesting background article on diversity and inclusion in the notary sector.
Dialogue on Data Collection at Work
As an employer, how do you identify the challenges and needs of LGBTIQ+ employees and other relatively invisible groups? This is a question that many organisations struggle with, yet it is rarely talked about with employees themselves.
To encourage such conversations, we developed the P.INC poster campaign, aimed to make discussions about inclusion, privacy, and data gathering easier in the workplace. The posters are designed in such a way that they create a ‘huh?’-moment as the images and texts are ambiguous on purpose and do not always fit in the work context. The explanation of the poster, the ‘ohh-moment’, is facilitated by an email that contains the aim of the campaign, as well as an invitation for discussion. The poster campaign is a collaboration between members of the Young Academies of Utrecht University and Eindhoven Young Academy.
Yesterday morning, Michiel Kolman 🏳️🌈 and I were briefly interviewed on this topic by De Ondernemer (starting at 19:00).
Want to know more about the P.INC poster campaign? Have a look here.
Poster on sexual orientation as part of the P.INC poster campaign, designed by Studio SociaalCentraal and in collaboration with Workplace Pride.
"Stronger Together" - Workplace Pride conference 2022
At this year’s annual Workplace Pride conference at the Beurs van Berlage, I had the honor to be part of a panel on employee data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity. I was also interviewed by Aldith Hunkar on how I connect science and practice when it comes to LGBTIQ+ inclusion and how businesses can benefit from this knowledge. The video can be viewed HERE
For more videos and resources from the International Conference, click this link: https://lnkd.in/e9_DT_9
The Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities of LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups
Interested in learning about the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups, but not able to attend our symposium on May 19th? Fear not! Workplace Pride has compiled all materials for you in one handy overview (see the post below).
We look back on an insightful event, thanks to the contributions of the audience, Michiel Kolman 🏳️🌈, Anna Einarsdottir, Kshitij Mor, David Pollard, Linn ten Haaf, Erik Poolman, and thanks to the organizing skills of Kshitij Mor, Paula Hoffmann, Chenhao Zhou, Eva Jaspers, and Christine Holtkamp.
Stay tuned for the next Academia@WorkplacePride event!
In collaboration with Academia@Workplace Pride, members of the SCOOP Sustainable Cooperation Program and EU COST project on LGBTI inequalities.
Program: https://lnkd.in/eVEm_Wnv
Festival for diversity and inclusion
On Tuesday 24 May, New Scientist together with Karima Arichi, Stadsdeel Oost director of the municipality of Amsterdam, organized the event Niks is ons vreemd: festival van diversiteit en inclusie. The event took place in the Royal Institute for the Tropics and I had the honour to be part of it and talk about about LGBT+ workplace inclusion. An afternoon with valuable contributions by Abdelhamid Idrissi, Adwoa Bobo, Assamaual Saidi Rabah, Rosie Zheng, Aynouk Tan, Geo van Dam, Asis Aynan en Vincent Bijlo.
Photo credit: Bob Bronshoff
D&I Masterclass
One of the things that make my work so enjoyable and rewarding, is the active exchange between science and practice. Over the past weeks, I had the opportunity to experience this again during the three-part masterclass ‘Looking at D&I policy through a different lens', in which Melissa Vink, Wiebren Jansen and Lina Senen teamed up with highly motivated and knowledgeable participants from different sectors to work on D&I policy cases from their own workplace in an evidence-based and systematic way.
I am once again immensely inspired by the expertise and enthusiasm of the participants. Through their active approach, all participants really brought their D&I policy approach to the next level. Many thanks for your commitment and openness, Aurora Guds, Liesbeth van de Garde, Tessa Meesters, en mr. Chantal Jansen. I learned at least as much from you as you learned from us, and I am already looking forward to the next cycle!
Would you like to know more about this masterclass? Click here.
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Privacy and D&I Policy Guide
Information about employees’ sexual orientation and gender identity is important for monitoring potential inequality at work and in developing and assessing diversity and inclusion policy. At the same time, it is important to handle sensitive information about employees with care. Information about a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity is personal data and subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national implementation acts. This legislation is intended to protect people’s privacy.
To help D&I officers navigate these issues, Stefan Kulk, Marthe van der Velde, Martine Veldhuizen and I created this handout that gives D&I officers an overview of the most important rules to follow in order to avoid pitfalls when developing and rolling out diversity and inclusion policy.
Future of Work Seminar Series: Inclusion at Work
How do you ensure lasting diversity in the workplace? And how do you create a situation in which everyone can function optimally? Together with Eva Jaspers, I shared relevant insights from research and practical tips in this Future of Work video.
Creating support for D&I policy
It was a great pleasure to present our findings on support for D&I policy in organizations at Radboud University earlier this month!
The effectiveness of D&I policies strongly depends on the extent to which they are supported by employees within the organization, but how do you create such support? This was the central question of the stakeholder event that we organized in collaboration with with SER Diversity at Work and the Netherlands Inclusivity Monitor. For a summary of the discussion, see here.
Stay tuned for our handout on creating support for D&I policy.
Photo credit: Sacha Verheij