Date
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Session Type
Workshop: 135 min
Name
Equity in Theory and Practice: Organizational Justice for Managers
Description

Racialized librarians face more challenges in predominantly white institutions from navigating spaces to experiencing microaggressions to name a few. Workplace culture and the construction of social norms and rules are complex, however, library managers play a vital role in ensuring that workplaces and spaces are equitable and inclusive spaces. There are three areas within organizational justice that managers should consider: distributive justice (fairness in outcomes), procedural justice (fairness in process), and interactional justice (fairness in treatment). This session delves into the different forms and uses examples from the survey data to illustrate where sites of inequity may emerge and offer suggestions to redress it. In addition, the session utilizes research data from a REB approved survey with racialized librarians to demonstrate how organizational policies and practices that are standardized still leave room for biases, inequity, and exclusion. In addition, the session will utilize practical examples and engage participants in critical praxis to generate ideas for critical action in redressing inequitable and unfair situations that BIPOC librarians may face with institutional structures and procedures using organizational justice and the three forms of justice.

Track
Leadership