Being part of diversity: The effects of an all-inclusive multicultural diversity approach on majority members’ perceived inclusion and support for organizational diversity efforts

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 817-832

  Jansen, Wiebren S ^a   Otten, Sabine ^a   van der Zee, Karen I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

all inclusive multiculturalism; diversity approaches; inclusion; multiculturalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942315431     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430214566892     Document Type: Article

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