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

随着社会和政治紧张局势变得越来越尖锐，需要以支持为基础的干预措施来反对人际偏见、污名化和歧视，这一点正变得非常明显。尽管有相对较长的研究历史来确定减少人际消极性的策略（例如，“多样性培训”），但关于持续消极性的报道主导了当前的头条新闻。该项目将设计并验证一个理论开发和经验支持的多元化干预措施，重点是培训员工的特定技能，使其成为彼此之间和边缘化其他人的盟友。具体来说，这个项目将通过(a)纵向评估这类培训的有效性以评估长期影响和(b)编制培训的联机版本以广泛传播来扩展目前的知识和实施。该项目还将包括建立一个多样性研究小组，一个面向本科生的夏季多样性研究所，以及一个旨在教育组织科学家关于联盟和多样性研究的讲习班。培训内容以社会认同、旁观者干预过程、社会学习和计划行为等相关理论为依据。培训设计以学习理论和与学习、记忆、信息处理和知识转移相关的当代最佳实践为依据。培训模块包括基于讲座的演示、基于视频的角色建模、换位思考的移情练习和人际交往技巧练习。培训将涉及知识和技能的获取，深层的认知和情感心理处理，以及具体的技能建设，以最大限度地转移和实施所学技能。该项目可以通过侧重于技能培养而不是减少歧视，并采用系统的纵向和多层次实证验证，改变我们对多样性培训举措的理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.