Benefits and Threats of Diversity Scale (BTDS)



Benefits and Threats of Diversity Scale (BTDS)

To conduct successful diversity interventions within your organization, it is essential to first understand the attitudes and perceptions of your employees towards cultural differences.

The Benefits and Threats of Diversity Scale (BTDS) has been designed specifically with this task in mind. Adding the BTDS to existing audit tools allows HR managers to map diversity attitudes within an organization, which enables them to reduce diversity resistance and communicate effectively about new interventions. Furthermore, the BTDS allows for tracking of diversity attitudes over time, through which the effectiveness of interventions can be tested.



Aim:

Broadly speaking, the BTDS gives answers to the following questions:

  • Which positive/negative effects of diversity to employees experience in their work?
  • To what degree do employees feel diversity affects their personal functioning and the effectiveness of their team?



    • Development and Validation:

    The BTDS was developed by Joep Hofhuis, Karen van der Zee and Sabine Otten, in cooperation with the Netherlands’ Ministry of Internal Affairs and the A&O Fonds Rijk. Scientific assessment of reliability and validity can be found in the article below:

    Hofhuis, J., Van der Zee, K.I., & Otten, S. (2015). Measuring Employee Perception on the Effects of Cultural Diversity at Work: Development of the Benefits and Threats of Diversity Scale. Quality & Quantity, 49(1), 177-201. doi: 10.1007/s11135-013-9981-7

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