Diversity, Inclusion, and Commitment in Organizations: International Empirical Explorations

University of Southern California Research on social demography in the workplace indicates that people from diverse groups commonly find themselves excluded from networks of information and opportunity. In today’s global economy, diversity needs to be examined from an intra-national as well as international perspective. Utilizing social identity and intergroup theories and focusing on the inclusion-exclusion construct, this article formulates a conceptual model of the relationship between diversity, inclusion and commitment and tests it in two samples drawn from high-tech companies in the U.S. and in Israel. The results support the applicability of the model across the two cultures, but the role of diversity in the model proves to be more limited than hypothesized. The results suggest that, while the context of diversity and its specific categories differ across cultures, there are similarities in the associated experience of exclusion.