Krivoshchekov, Vladislav (2023). Factors facilitating and inhibiting gender diversity at the organisational and societal levels: Emotionality in diversity statements and traditional masculinities. (Thesis). Universität Bern, Bern
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Abstract
Extensive efforts have been undertaken to address discrimination and promote diversity within both societal and organisational contexts. This dissertation comprises two distinct manuscripts, each offering insight into factors that can either facilitate or inhibit diversity efforts at the organisational and societal levels. The first manuscript reports research on language cues in organisational diversity statements. It explores how subtle language cues can contribute to more effective organisational communication in attracting diverse talents. The results illuminated the practices of European organisations, revealing a notable absence of highly emotional language in their diversity statements. Additionally, existing high levels of emotionality in the diversity statements were no more effective in shaping more positive attitudes toward the organisation than low levels of emotionality in the diversity statements. Finally, experimental evidence suggested that organisations seeking to increase people’s favourable attitudes toward them should use high levels of emotionality in their diversity statements, as weak emotionality is no more effective than no emotionality in shaping positive attitudes toward the organisation, independent of past experiences of exclusion. The second manuscript reports a meta-analysis of the relationship between traditional masculinities and men’s violence against women. The findings indicated that men who adhere to rigid traditional masculine norms tend to report more violent attitudes and behaviours against women. However, we observed considerable heterogeneity in effect sizes derived from original studies. To investigate the factors that might explain this heterogeneity, a moderation analysis was carried out, with the type of traditional masculinities (i.e., traditional masculinity ideology, conformity to masculine norms, experience of gender role stress), type of violence (i.e., sexual harassment, rape, physical, and psychological), and context of violence (i.e., intimate and non-intimate) being used as moderators. The moderation analysis evinced the strongest correlations between traditional masculinity ideology and attitudes toward violence, and between traditional masculinities and sexual harassment. Interestingly, types of traditional masculinities and violence did not affect the relationship between traditional masculinities and violent behaviour. Additionally, we observed that domains of traditional masculinities differed in their associations with men’s violence against women. The research presented in this dissertation holds valuable insights that can be leveraged to achieve gender diversity in organisations and society at large.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Dissertation Type: | Cumulative |
| Date of Defense: | 13 December 2023 |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
| Institute / Center: | 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Hammer Igor |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2024 16:03 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2024 16:03 |
| URI: | https://boristheses.unibe.ch/id/eprint/5557 |
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