"Can I contribute here?" Exploring how interpersonal treatment and mindset affect women's sense of fit in organizations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- What does it mean to belong and feel included in a work setting? In this dissertation, I theorize that a core question that people ask themselves as they enter new work settings whether they are able or allowed to contribute towards shared work goals. In Chapters 2-5, I focus on interpersonal treatment, termed microinclusions, and find evidence that people are attuned to treatment from others that directly welcomes them as respected work partners, recognizes them as able to contribute to shared goals, and supports them in doing so. In Chapter 2, employees at a real-world technology company anticipated greater fit in a work group described by microinclusive treatment; however, this effect was greatest for women. Chapters 3-4 replicated the gain in fit with microinclusive treatment among female college students considering a job in a technology company, showed that it arose regardless of the numerical representation of women at the company, and that a microinclusion from a man (but not from another woman) led women to anticipate greater fit for another woman. Finally, using a laboratory paradigm, Chapter 5 shows that microinclusive treatment increased women's, but not men's, quantitative performance in a stereotype threat context. In Chapters 6-7, I take these findings explore whether a mindset intervention about growth in opportunities in contributions for new employees at a large technology company can also improve employees' experiences. Unexpectedly, the intervention led to lower higher employment terminations and lower belonging. Implications for psychological interventions are then discussed.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Muragishi, Gregg Abe |
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| Degree supervisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
| Thesis advisor | Walton, Gregory M. (Gregory Mariotti) |
| Thesis advisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Thesis advisor | Steele, Claude |
| Degree committee member | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Degree committee member | Steele, Claude |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gregg Abe Muragishi. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yx726cb2113 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Gregg Abe Muragishi
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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