Project description
How macro societal events affect our relationship with co-workers
The benefits of employee engagement and inclusion are documented. What has yet to be studied, however, is the effect of diversity-related societal events on workplace cooperation. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project INJORG will focus on large-scale cultural and political events to draw attention to threats like racism, sexism and discrimination. The project will study how the #BlackLivesMatter movement affected cooperation between Black and white co-workers. It will also explore how the #MeToo movement changed cooperation between male and female co-workers. Considering the Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe, INJORG will investigate how this affected cooperation between Islamic and non-Islamic co-workers. The findings will be useful for managers and business leaders addressing issues arising from mega-threats.
Objective
"In this project I explore the effect of diversity-related societal events on workplace cooperation. Throughout the recent decade a number of large-scale cultural and political events have continued to draw attention to threats like racism, sexism, and discrimination. Prominent examples of such events are the #MeToo movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, or Islamic terrorism in Europe. Despite the prominence of these events in public discourse, we don’t know the consequences of this mega-threats for the cooperation and interaction between co-workers in organizations. In this project, I deploy a novel interdisciplinary approach, in which I combine insights from the emerging “macro” literature in sociology and management and their effect on organizations and the large existing “micro” literature in psychology on diverse work teams and behavioral strategy in order to develop and test novel hypotheses about how diversity related large-scale events that occur in organizations´ larger social context affect the cooperation in diverse teams and the decision-making in organizations. I will focus on four related research questions: 1) How did the #BlackLivesMatter movement affect the cooperation between black and white co-workers? 2) How did the #MeToo movement affect the cooperation between male and female co-workers? 3) How did Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe affect the cooperation between Islamic and Non-Islamic co-workers? and 4)How can managers and business leaders manage issues arising from mega-threats? In order to test my prediction I will collect a novel large scale database including information on diversity related mega-threats from Twitter and media reports and combine it with data on the cooperation in organizations. The ambitious goal of this interdisciplinary project is to open a research stream which strives to develop an understanding on how macro societal events affect our micro behavior with other co-workers in organzations."
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- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities racial inequality
- social sciences psychology
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01
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2000 FREDERIKSBERG
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