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How Prejudice Is Tackled in the Workplace How Prejudice Is Tackled in the Workplace
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What’s Missing? Motivation What’s Missing? Motivation
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What Do We Mean by “Motivation”? What Do We Mean by “Motivation”?
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Reducing Defensiveness and Defiance Reducing Defensiveness and Defiance
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How Do You Motivate Change? How Do You Motivate Change?
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Need-Supportive Strategies Need-Supportive Strategies
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Avoid pressure and shame. Avoid pressure and shame.
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Support choice. Support choice.
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Give a meaningful rationale. Give a meaningful rationale.
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Activate inclusive values. Activate inclusive values.
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Take the perspective of those being motivated. Take the perspective of those being motivated.
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Build relatedness. Build relatedness.
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Guidance and structure. Guidance and structure.
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Need-Based Approaches to Reducing Prejudice Need-Based Approaches to Reducing Prejudice
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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46 How to Motivate People to Care about Prejudice Reduction in the Workplace
Get accessNicole Legate, Illinois Institute of Technology
Netta Weinstein, School of Pyschology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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Published:23 February 2023
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Abstract
Despite investing billions of dollars annually, workplace efforts to curb prejudice and discrimination typically fall short of creating effective or long-lasting change. This chapter uses insights from self-determination theory to understand why that is, and suggests the remedy is to motivate employees to care about prejudice reduction. Workplaces can inspire this type of motivation by supporting employees’ needs for autonomy (aligning prejudice reduction with people’s core values and beliefs), competence (providing concrete guidance and skills to change), and relatedness (fostering connections with the motivator and diverse others). The chapter reviews the specific need-supportive strategies that promote motivation to care about prejudice reduction and what these might look like in the context of workplace diversity initiatives. It discusses evidence for existing need-based prejudice-reduction approaches, including within policing, an organizational setting in which prejudice reduction is of utmost importance. It advocates that organizations infuse these motivational strategies into ongoing diversity initiatives to inspire long-lasting change.
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