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The table has two columns: the left column lists the “Intervention Category,” and the right column provides a “Description” and “Examples” for each category. The categories and their corresponding descriptions or examples are as follows: Audits, reviews, and assessments: Description: Processes for monitoring and evaluating efforts in workplace diversity in an open and transparent manner. Examples: Organizational assessments, audits, use of company diversity metrics. De-biasing of selection procedures: Description: Measures taken to eliminate sources of bias in recruitment, performance reviews, and career progression. Examples: De-biasing of identifying information during recruitment, standardized behavioral interviews, hiring tests, using objective criteria for recruitment. Diversity training and education: Description: Instructional programs for “facilitating positive intergroup interactions, reducing prejudice and discrimination, and enhancing the skills, knowledge, and motivation of participants to interact with diverse others” (Bezuirkova et al., 2016, p. 1228). Examples: Diversity training, awareness training, sensitivity training, cross-cultural training. Flexible work arrangements: Description: Practices to change standard working arrangements to accommodate employees‘ needs and commitments. Examples: Flexible working hours, part-time work, reduced hours, job-sharing, telecommuting. Health promotion activities: Description: Organizational initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of employees. Examples: Health checks, health counseling, health screening, occupational health programs. Informal workplace supports: Description: Supportive actions and relationships with members across all levels of the organization. Examples: Emotional support, instrumental support, informative support. Job training and coaching: Description: Training and career development programs for building employees' knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Examples: Job training, coaching, vocational counseling, vocational support. Policies involving recruitment, leave, and compensation: Description: Formal organizational policies involving pay, leave, compensation, and discrimination. Examples: Equal opportunity directives, affirmative action, gender quotas. Role models and mentors: Description: Formal or informal relationships between a senior employee who provides guidance to a less-experienced employee. Examples: Role models, mentors, sponsors (also reverse mentoring). Visibility: Description: Practices or programs encouraging greater visibility of employees from marginalized or disadvantaged groups. Examples: Display of minority groups or women in advertising or organizational media. Workplace accommodations: Description: Any change or adjustment to a job, the work environment, or the way things are usually done that would allow an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform job functions, or enjoy equal access to benefits available to other individuals in the workplace“ (Job Accommodation Network, 2022). Examples: Modifying work schedules, changing commute to work, restructuring job duties, adjusting supervisory methods, assistive technology or specialized equipment, flexible work arrangements, job training. Other practices, policies, and interventions: Description: Any remaining activities, activities that were too broad to be meaningfully analyzed in this review, or discrete actions.Categories of organizational diversity and inclusion interventions