Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations

Decades of research on workplace diversity have produced conflicting results regarding its effects on employees and teams. Critical perspectives on workplace diversity aim to understand the messy social and political realities of workplace diversity in context, addressing issues such as power, inequality, politics, history, culture, and lived experiences that pure management and psychology approaches may overlook. This book is of interest to international graduate students, researchers, organizational practitioners, and activists working on equality, diversity, and inclusion in organizations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 318 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Decades of research into workplace diversity have yielded conflicting findings regarding its impact on employees and teams, as well as the effectiveness of managing it for positive organizational outcomes. Contrary to mainstream perspectives from management and psychology, critical views on workplace diversity have emerged to delve deeper into the complex social and political realities of workplace diversity within its contextual settings.

Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations aims to critically review, integrate, and build upon emerging critical perspectives on workplace diversity to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how employee differences shape workplace interactions, relationships, employment, inequality, culture, and society. These critical perspectives shed light on issues that may be overlooked by pure management and psychology approaches, including power dynamics, inequality, politics, history, culture, and lived experiences.

Without considering and critically reflecting on these issues, diversity management is likely to remain a relatively blunt instrument or, worse, a mere façade. This book will appeal to international graduate students and researchers specializing in equality, diversity, and inclusion in organizations, as well as organizational practitioners and activists actively engaged in addressing these issues.

Weight: 600g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367695941