“…In the hospitality industry, previous studies have investigated multiple topics related to diversity, including investigating tourism companies' diversity policies (Gajjar and Okumus, 2018), exploring the impact of diversity management on financial performance (Lim et al, 2023;Singal, 2014), measuring the effectiveness of informal diversity management practices (Madera, 2013;Manoharan et al, 2019), the role of hospitality diversity management on job satisfaction through organizational commitment (Garc ıa-Rodr ıguez et al, 2020), empowerment and capability development in diversity management (Elkhwesky et al, 2019), the impact of diversity management initiatives on firm-level diversity (Tracey et al, 2023), understanding hotels' corporate diversity statements (Gr€ oschl, 2011), success factors of diversity management (Scherle and Rosenbaum, 2019), hotel managers' perspectives on workforce diversity (Mkono, 2010) and psychological diversity climate (Madera et al, 2016). They mostly approached diversity from a managerial perspective and aimed to understand its economic and psychological outcomes for employees.…”