Mobilizing bystanders to address microaggressions in the workplace: The case for a systems‐change approach to Getting A (Collective) GRIP.

Microaggressions present significant barriers to the entry and advancement of individuals from marginalized groups within the workplace. Their ubiquity, coupled with their harmful impact, creates an urgent need for organizations to mitigate them to foster truly equitable and inclusive work environme...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 69; no. 1/2; pp. 221 - 239
Autores principales: Bond, Meg A., Haynes‐Baratz, Michelle C.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2022
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          Bond, Meg A.
          Haynes‐Baratz, Michelle C.
        affil: Department of Psychology and Center for Women and Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Massachusetts, , USA
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        Work environment
        Authority
        Social norms
        Organizational change
        Decision making
        Industrial hygiene
        Corporate culture
        Social integration
        Conceptual structures
        Microaggressions
        Labor discipline
        Management
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          Corporate culture
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          Conceptual structures
          Microaggressions
          Labor discipline
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        bias
        bystander
        intervention
        microaggressions
        social–ecological principles
        workplace
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      ab: Microaggressions present significant barriers to the entry and advancement of individuals from marginalized groups within the workplace. Their ubiquity, coupled with their harmful impact, creates an urgent need for organizations to mitigate them to foster truly equitable and inclusive work environments. In this paper, we present a bystander‐focused approach to address this particular form of workplace bias. Informed by the empirical literature and grounded in socioecological principles, we underscore the importance of a systems‐change approach to the development and implementation of any bystander program. We describe ways to incorporate social–ecological sensibilities into the substance of the training itself by outlining our "Get A (Collective) GRIP" framework. This framework emphasizes the need for active bystanders to employ an ecological scan that includes Assessing what happened, determining one's Goals for intervening, considering the Relationships among those involved in the incident (target/s, transgressor/s, and witness/es), taking into account the Institutional context in which the incident occurs, and being attuned to structural issues and Power dynamics within the context. Finding ways to address microaggressions that embody systemic analyses has transformative potential for the workplace and doing so through activating bystanders to alter local social norms is an area that has tremendous promise in this regard. Key points: Promotion of active bystanders can mitigate harmful impacts of microaggressions.Social‐ecological principles inform a systems‐change approach to activating bystanders.Value added by a systems‐change approach to bystanders is change in workplace social norms.Attention to the context and substance of bystander training is critical to its preventive potential.
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