Please note that this event is held on Colchester campus only.
Despite formal organisational programmes for achieving neuro-inclusion, neurodivergent workers tend to report a lower sense of belonging, greater exhaustion, and diminished well-being.
Drawing on organisational justice theory, this seminar examines the mechanism by which organisational justice shapes the flourishing of neurodivergent workers through workplace belongingness. It deploys a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, in which quantitative findings from a survey of 296 neurodivergent workers in the United Kingdom, analysed through confirmatory factor analysis, regression-based mediation, and necessary condition analysis, are explained by qualitative interviews with 42 neurodivergent workers, leaders, HRM professionals, and neuro-inclusion entrepreneurs, analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
The research finds that organisational justice is positively associated with workplace belongingness, which is, in turn, positively associated with flourishing, and that this indirect pathway accounts for most, though not all, of justice’s association with flourishing. The research contributes to the HRM literature by reframing neuro-inclusion from a formal, compliance-driven practice to a relational, infrastructural challenge, concluding that organisations that adjust procedures for neurodivergent workers without cultivating a meaningful justice architecture reproduce the exclusion they claim to address, leaving workers formally accommodated but relationally unrecognised.
The study contributes to organisational justice theory by showing that, for neurodivergent workers, justice evaluations function as signals that determine whether the relational investment belonging requires is worth the risk it carries.
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