ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the organizational reality, it is vital for higher education administrators to understand their institution's organizational culture and to develop an organization that fosters equity and inclusion among its faculty. Analyzing the organizational culture is critical to enabling innovation. Among faculty in higher education, it is widely known that a common barrier to institutional effectiveness is the organizational culture in which the institution exists. By implementing inclusive processes, programs, and policies that allow underrepresented faculty to influence the institution's strategic objectives. Furthermore, extant research on organizational culture has greater implications for higher education administrators attempting to change or enhance the social and political climate to promote diversity. Engaging faculty diversity in higher education requires administrators to understand the racial composition of their faculty as well as the experiences of its underrepresented faculty. Finally, higher education administrators should consider employing human-centered approaches to utilize underrepresented faculty to achieve the institution's evolving objectives.
