Seterra is a doctoral student at Old Dominion University. She works as a graduate research assistant and conducts research with Dr. Debra A. Major to identify barriers, such as work-family conflict, for women and minority populations in STEM and ways to keep people motivated to continue pursuing a STEM profession. In 2013, she graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in psychology and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology.
Organizations have begun to embrace remote and hybrid work arrangements while simultaneously prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in a post-COVID-19 work era, bringing forth new challenges in socializing organizational newcomers. In this chapter, a DE&I perspective is applied to further understanding of the unique challenges organizations and leaders face in socializing remote workers, encouraging organizations to proactively foster newcomer development of essential cognitive, regulative, and normative knowledge; self-efficacy; and a sense of social inclusion. Evidence-based recommendations are provided to provide a path forward for organizations to socialize organizational newcomers in the new age of remote work in a way that upholds DE&I goals and values.
278.7 COVID-19-associated hospitalizations per 100,000 population in the United States (overall cumulative rate) and 70 million cumulative cases and 1.6 million cumulative deaths worldwide at the time of writing in December 2020 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020b; World Health Organization, 2020).
Her research broadly focuses on how people successfully enact their careers and overcome barriers to career success. Dr. Major's current research focuses on work-family conflict and coping and the barriers encountered by women and ethnic minorities pursuing careers in science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM). Her work has received continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for 15 years, and she has led numerous multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research teams. She presently serves on the editorial boards
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