Biography
Seval Gündemir studies Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Her research interests include employee responses to DEI efforts, intergroup relationships and bias, discrimination, diversity in leadership positions, and DEI in higher education institutions.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Associate professor | Department of People and Organisations
- gundemir@rsm.nl
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Work
- Joey R. Stofberg, Seval Gündemir, Hannah Hartgerink & Serena Does (2025) - Race-Ethnicity Omission in LGBTQIA+ Youth Research in the Netherlands: A Scoping Review - Sexuality Research and Social Policy - doi: 10.1007/s13178-025-01235-z - [link]
- Kshitij Mor, Seval Gündemir & Jojanneke van der Toorn (2025) - ‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ+ employees' sense of being tolerated at work: How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ plus employees' sense of being tolerated at work - British Journal of Social Psychology, 64 (4) - doi: 10.1111/bjso.70006 - [link]
- Teri A. Kirby & Seval Gündemir (2025) - The Who, Why, and How of Diversity: When Celebrating Diversity Enacts Covert Identity-Blindness - American Psychologist - doi: 10.1037/amp0001621 - [link]
- Seval Gündemir, Rouven Kanitz, Floor Rink, Inga Hoever & Michael Slepian (2024) - Beneath the surface: Resistance to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in organizations - Current Opinion in Psychology, 60 - doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101922
- Kshitij Mor, Seval Gündemir & Jojanneke van der Toorn (2024) - Celebrating the “Invisible”: The Role of Organizational Diversity Approaches on Attracting and Retaining LGBTQ + Talent - Journal of Business and Psychology, 40 (3), 593-617 - doi: 10.1007/s10869-024-09975-2 - [link]
- Danqiao Cheng, Serena Does, Seval Gündemir & Margaret Shih (2024) - How Organizational Responses to Sexual Harassment Claims Shape Public Perception - Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 46 (3), 169-186 - doi: 10.1080/01973533.2024.2313536 - [link]
- Teri A. Kirby, Seval Gündemir, Ashli B. Carter, Eileen Schwanold & Eirini Ketzitzidou-Argyri (2023) - The Role of Intraminority Relations in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125 (6), 1373 - 1393 - doi: 10.1037/pspi0000428 - [link]
- Ashley Martin & Seval Gündemir (2023) - Diversity Ideologies in Organizations - doi: 10.4135/9781071840801
- Iris Andriessen, Seval Gündemir, Joost W. S. Kappelhof & Astrid C. Homan (2023) - Examining the divergent effects of perceived inclusion of ethnic minorities on majority and minority groups’ inter ethnic responses. - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1242595 - [link]
- Seval Gündemir, Astrid C. Homan & LL (Lindred) Greer (2023) - Overcoming the Inclusion Facade - MIT Sloan Management Review - [link]
- Seval Gündemir & Teri Kirby (2022) - Diversity Approaches in Organizations: A Leadership Perspective. - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95652-3_2
- Jozefien De Leersnyder, Seval Gündemir & Orhan Ağirdağ (2021) - Diversity approaches matter in international classrooms: How a multicultural approach buffers against cultural misunderstandings and encourages inclusion and psychological safety. - Studies in Higher Education, 47 (9), 1903-1920 - doi: 10.1080/03075079.2021.1983534
- Morreel, Loes Meeussen, Seval Gündemir & Jozefien DeLeersnyder (2021) - Uitsluitingsprocessen in het Hoger Onderwijs – de cruciale rol van de docent in het creëren van gelijkheid.
- Astrid C. Homan, Seval Gündemir, Claudia Buengeler & Gerben A. van Kleef (2020) - Leading diversity: Towards a theory of functional leadership in diverse teams. - Journal of Applied Psychology, 104 (1), 1101–1128 - doi: 10.1037/apl0000482
- Seval Gündemir, Andrew M. Carton & Astrid C. Homan (2019) - The impact of organizational performance on the emergence of Asian American leaders - Journal of Applied Psychology, 104 (1), 107-122 - doi: 10.1037/apl0000347
- Seval Gündemir, Ashley Martin, Astrid C. Homan & Teri A. Kirby (2019) - Understanding Diversity Ideologies From the Target's Perspective: A Review and Future Directions - Frontiers in Psychology, 10 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00282
- Seval Gündemir (2018) - Diversiteitsideologieën in organisaties: Verleden, heden, en toekomst - Gedrag en Organisatie, 31 (3), 235 - 261
- Serena Does, Seval Gündemir & Margaret Shih (2018) - How sexual harassment affects a company’s public image. - Harvard Business Review (digital) - [link]
- Seval Gündemir & Adam D. Galinksy (2018) - Multicolored Blindfolds: How Organizational Multiculturalism Can Conceal Racial Discrimination and Delegitimize Racial Discrimination Claims - Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9 (7), 825 - 834 - doi: 10.1177/1948550617726830
INTeD (Instituut voor Toezicht & Diversiteit)
- Start date approval
- February 2024
- End date approval
- December 2026
- Place
- DEN HAAG
Stichting NOA
- Start date approval
- February 2026
- End date approval
- January 2029
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
Managing Diversity
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BMME042
