SBP: CAREER: Organizational diversity management through supportive, skills-focused allyship training

SBP：职业：通过支持性、以技能为重点的盟友培训进行组织多样性管理

• 批准号: 1945604
• 负责人: Larry Martinez
• 金额: $ 49.78万
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-01 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945604&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBP; CAREER; Organizational; diversity; management

As social and political tensions become increasingly acerbic, the need for support-based interventions against interpersonal prejudice, stigmatization, and discrimination is becoming abundantly clear. Despite a relatively long history of research identifying strategies for reducing interpersonal negativity (e.g., “diversity training”), reports of continued negativity dominate the current headlines. This project will design and validate a theoretically-developed and empirically supported diversity intervention focused on training employees specific skills to be allies for one another and for marginalized others. Specifically, this project will extend current knowledge and implementation by (a) assessing the effectiveness of this type of training longitudinally to assess long-term impact and (b) developing an online version of the training for broad dissemination. This project will also include the development of a diversity research group, a summer diversity research institute for undergraduate scholars, and a workshop designed to educate organizational scientists about allyship and diversity research.The training content is informed by theories related to social identity, bystander intervention processes, social learning, and planned behavior. The training design is informed by theories of learning and contemporary best practices related to learning, retention, information processing, and knowledge transfer. Training modules include lecture-based presentations, video-based role modeling, perspective-taking empathy exercises, and interpersonal skills practice. The training will address knowledge and skill acquisition, deep levels of cognitive and emotional mental processing, and concrete skill-building to maximize transfer and implementation of the skills learned. This project can transform our understanding of diversity training initiatives by focusing on skill-building rather than on discrimination reduction and by employing systematic longitudinal and multilevel empirical validation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

随着社会和政治紧张局势变得越来越尖锐，基于支持的干预措施对人际偏见、污名化和歧视的必要性变得非常明显。尽管确定减少人际负面情绪的策略的研究历史相对较长(例如，“多元化培训”)，但有关持续负面情绪的报道占据了当前的头条新闻。该项目将设计和验证一种理论上开发和经验支持的多样性干预措施，重点是培训员工的特定技能，使其成为彼此的盟友和被边缘化的其他人的盟友。具体而言，该项目将通过以下方式扩展现有知识和执行情况：(A)纵向评估这类培训的成效，以评估长期影响；(B)开发培训的在线版本，以便广泛传播。该项目还将包括发展一个多样性研究小组，一个面向本科生学者的夏季多样性研究机构，以及一个旨在教育组织科学家有关联盟和多样性研究的研讨会。培训内容涉及与社会认同、旁观者干预过程、社会学习和计划行为有关的理论。培训设计参考了学习理论和与学习、保留、信息处理和知识转移相关的当代最佳实践。培训模块包括基于讲座的演讲、基于视频的角色建模、换位思考练习和人际交往技能练习。培训将涉及知识和技能的获得、认知和情感心理处理的深层次，以及具体技能建设，以最大限度地转移和应用所学技能。这个项目可以通过专注于技能建设而不是减少歧视，并通过采用系统的纵向和多层次的经验验证来改变我们对多样性培训倡议的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。