Workplace Inclusion in Academia: The Relationship between Diversity Climate and Engineering Faculty Turnover Intentions

This study examined the relationship between engineering faculty’s perception of the diversity climate and their turnover intentions at “R1 (Research 1)” universities across the U.S. We sampled 1,101 tenure-track engineering faculty for this purpose. Data analysis showed that engineering faculty’s demographic characteristics (i.e., sex, race/ethnicity, professor rank, age, engineering areas, marriage status, and tenure-track status) are associated with their perceptions of the diversity climate. Faculty with higher perceptions of organizational fairness and inclusion reported a lower desire to turn over.