A Hierarchy of Learning Needs for Revolutionizing Inclusive Organizational Practices

Abstract

Problem

Despite organizations adopting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in organizational initiatives, discrimination, and unjust practices persist. Consequently, organizational environments where individuals feel safe and valued are critical not only to organizational effectiveness but for individual learning, growth, and development.

Solution

Inclusive leadership models that: (1) integrate organizational learning as the driver for social transformation at the individual, group, and broad organizational levels and (2) develop inclusive leaders who espouse pro-diversity beliefs, enact social change and envision a workplace that values human relations as a basic need for achieving the highest possible degree of human well-being.

Stakeholders

Organizational leaders, human resource development educators, researchers, scholars.

Keywords

inclusive leadership inclusive leaders organizational learning diversity equity inclusion and belonging psychological safety industrial and organizational psychology

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