Call for papers – Indigenous People: Emerging from Adversity and Pursuing their Dreams
Call for Papers
Indigenous People: Emerging from Adversity and Pursuing their Dreams
Handbook on Indigenous People at Work
Editors: Dianna L. Stone, University of New Mexico, and Brian Murray, University at Dallas
Diannastone2015@gmail.com and bmurray@udallas.edu
Indigenous people face extraordinary challenges in work organizations including exclusion, discrimination, harassment, incivilities, and workplace violence (Ducharme, in press; Stone et al., in press). In addition, they typically have high unemployment rates which leads to poverty, housing and food insecurity, and high rates of illness and health problems. Many indigenous people are also invisible in societies, and some people have noted that they have never met an indigenous person. Despite these challenges, they have demonstrated remarkable resilience in supporting one another and crafting opportunities to improve their work and life circumstances (Vazques-Maguirre, 2020). To date, there has been relatively little research on indigenous people at work (e.g., Black & Kennedy, in press; Dabdoub et al., 2021; Murry et al., in press) and very few scholarly books have been published on the topic (e.g., Littlefield & Knack, 1996; Stone, Lukaszewski & Murray, in press; Whalen, 2018). As a result, organizations do not have the research evidence needed to effectively attract, motivate, and retain indigenous workers, to significantly improve their work situations, or to leverage their distinctive indigeneity to positively impact organizational creativity, adaptability, or competitiveness.