Workplace Inclusion in STEM Academia: The Relationship Between Diversity Climate and Turnover Intention of Engineering Faculty

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is examine the relationship between engineering faculty’s perception of their institution’s diversity climate and their turnover intentions at R1 universities. We also examine how their demographic characteristics are associated with those perceptions. A national cross-sectional survey of 1,161 engineering faculty was analyzed to address the study’s multiple purposes. Results suggest the dual role of faculty’s perceptions of how their employers institutionally valued diversity in influencing turnover intentions and mediating the relationships between faculty’s perceptions of diversity climate in their institutions and their turnover intentions. Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses supplemented our qualitative findings.

Authors

• Henry Tran, University of South Carolina, Columbia

• Spencer Platt, University of South Carolina - Columbia

• Ruiqin Gao, University of South Carolina - Columbia

• jungsun go