Managing the Organizational Melting Pot

Dilemmas of Workplase Diversity
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7411-1
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 403 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such key as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks, that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity. The volume also employs a variety of theoretical perspectives, including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, the authors examine a multitude of organizational situations in which the complications of diversity surface-many of which cross race, gender, ethnic and other socially constructed boundaries. Managing the Organizational Melting Pot draws examples not only from the United States, but also looks at situations from Canada, Britain, and the Middle East. Students, scholars, and managers who want to prepare themselves to deal with the challenges presented by a multicultural workforce will find this beneficial reading. In addition, researchers interested in conducting research in diversity management will find this an up-to-date, thought-provoking resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prasad, Pushkala

Mills, Albert J

Elmes, Michael

Prasad, Anshuman

Mills, Albert J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION From Showcase to Shadow - Pushkala Prasad and Albert J Mills Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity PART TWO: THEORIZING THE DILEMMAS OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY (In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference - J Michael Cavanagh The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference - Collette Oseen Re-Thinking the Difference in the Construction of the Non-Hierarchical Workplace The Unbearable Whiteness of Being - Roy Jacques Reflections of a Pale, Stale, Male Class Discipline - Richard Marsden IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce The Protestant Ethic and Myths of the Frontier - Pushkala Prasad Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring and Workplace Diversity Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations - Michael B Elmes and Debra L Connelley PART THREE: DILEMMAS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE Dueling Discourses - Albert J Mills Desexualization versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-60 Women in the Academy - Pat Bradshaw and David Wicks Cycles of Resistance and Compliance `We Have To Make a Management Decision' - Mark Maier Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity When Organizations Do Harm - Paula Caproni and Joycelyn Finley Two Cautionary Tales The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other - Anshuman Prasad A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil Triple Jeopardy - E Joy Mighty Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force How International Is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity - Diana J Wong-MingJi and Ali Husain Mir PART FIVE: CONCLUSION Issues in the Management of Diversity - Anshu Prasad and Michael B Elmes