Promoting Inclusive Workplaces: Conceptualizing and Measuring Inclusive Leadership in Public Organizations

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Ashikali, Tanachia S.; Van Luttervelt, Mads Pieter
• 署名单位: Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Aarhus University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352; 1540-6210
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.70136
• 发表日期: 2026-04-28
• 关键词: conceptualization; inclusive leadership; scale development and validation; diversity beliefs; team outcomes; performance; work; MODEL; need

摘要

Inclusive leadership has become a central theme in public management research to foster equity and workplace inclusiveness. While prior studies demonstrate its potential to enhance inclusiveness, psychological safety, and performance, existing conceptualizations and measures remain fragmented, emphasizing leader attitudes rather than observable behaviors. This article addresses these gaps by advancing a behavior-focused conceptualization of inclusive leadership, grounded in an inclusivity perspective and an integration-and-learning perspective. Inclusive leadership is defined as leader behaviors that seek to enable employees' full participation in work processes by supporting employees in balancing needs for uniqueness and belongingness and by stimulating the exchange, discussion, and integration of diverse perspectives. Building on this, a two-dimensional measurement is developed and validated through cognitive interviews and surveys among Dutch public employees (N = 304) and Danish upper secondary school teachers (N = 1275). The scale enables systematic assessment of inclusive leadership and its outcomes across contexts and diversity types.