Becoming and Acting As an Ally Against Weight-Based Discrimination

Authors

Christopher J. Waterbury, Portland State University
Larry R. Martinez, The University of Texas at Arlington
Liana Bernard, Portland State University
Nicholas A. Smith, The University of Texas at Arlington

Published In

Industrial and Organizational Psychology-Perspectives on Science and Practice

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2024

Subjects

Work -- Psychological aspects

Abstract

We appreciate and agree with the importance of the Best Practices for Weight at Work Research outlined by Lemmon et al. (Reference Lemmon, Jensen and Kuljanin2023). To help further contribute to this body of literature, we connect the scholarship related to weight-basedFootnote1 discrimination to contemporary allyship scholarship. Allyship support and advocacy behaviors improve employee experiences on day-to-day and long-term bases, and are therefore critical to research about weight at work. It is critically important to examine the development of allies against weight-stigma for two reasons.

Rights

© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2023.75

DOI

10.1017/iop.2023.75

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/41687

Citation Details

Waterbury, C. J., Martinez, L. R., Bernard, L., & Smith, N. A. (2024). Becoming and acting as an ally against weight-based discrimination. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 17(1), 142–147.