Strength-based organizational approaches facilitate workplace opportunities for people from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds.

The workplace stands as one of the most powerful drivers of societal (in)equality. For employees from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds, it can represent both a ticket toward upward mobility and a consequential source of stigma. Four studies build on emerging strength-based research to test whether workplaces can challenge this stigma by creating overarching cultures that recognize the beneficial skills employees gain from their otherwise marginalized identities. Study 1 provided foundational insights into these "strength-based organizational approaches" and their implications for key out