Enabling Employee Voices: How to Foster Engagement & Safety in the Workplace and Strategies for Amplifying Women & Minority Voices - Elad Sherf-Assoc. Prof, UNC Kenan Flager Business School

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Prof. Elad Sherf, discusses strategies for fostering engagement, safety, and equitability in the workplace. He shares his research & insights on how to build a culture that encourages employee feedback, amplifies underrepresented voices, and measures success in a way that is fair and equitable. We discuss,

Creating a Culture of Safety & Enabling Employee Voices : Speak Up or Not?

• The distinction between speaking up and staying silent
• Challenges of speaking up in the workplace, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities
• Strategies for encouraging critical engagement, empowering employees to speak up in critical situations, and fostering a culture of safety and trust in the workplace.

Engaging Employees Through Feedback and Fairness

• The importance of fairness in employee engagement, and strategies for soliciting and implementing feedback that empowers employees to feel heard and valued.
• Rebalancing workloads, building a culture of fairness, and promoting equity in decision-making and opportunities for growth.

Framing the Right Questions: Strategies for Effective Communication

• Tips for framing questions in a way that encourages open and honest communication, and helps employees feel more comfortable sharing their ideas and concerns.

Speaking Up in Meetings: Amplifying Women and Minority Voices

• Challenges that women and underrepresented minorities face in being heard in meetings, and strategies for amplifying their voices and promoting more inclusive decision-making.

Amplifying Underrepresented Voices: Building Equitable Teams and Access to Critical Projects

• Strategies for promoting diversity and inclusion in access to critical projects and opportunities for career advancement.

Elad Sherf is a Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work has been published in leading management and psychology journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and highlighted in Harvard Business Review.
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