Managing the Organizational Melting Pot : Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity.
Pushkala. Prasad
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (407 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Introduction -- Chapter 1 - From Showcase to Shadow: Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity -- Part II - Theorizing the Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity -- Chapter 2 - (In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference -- Chapter 3 - The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference: Rethinking the Different in the Construction of the Nonhierarchical Workplace -- Chapter 4 - The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Reflections of a Pale, Stale Male -- Chapter 5 - Class Discipline: IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce -- Chapter 6 - The Protestant Ethic and the Myths of the Frontier: Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring, and Workplace Diversity -- Chapter 7 - Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations -- Part III - Dilemmas of Diversity Management in Practice -- Chapter 8 - Dueling Discourses: Desexualization Versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-1960 -- Chapter 9 - Women in the Academy: Cycles of Resistance and Compliance -- Chapter 10 - "We have to Make a MANagement Decision": Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity -- Chapter 11 - When Organizations do Harm: Two Cautionary Tales -- Chapter 12 - The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other: A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil -- Chapter 13 - Triple Jeopardy: Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force -- Chapter 14 - How International is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity -- Part IV - Conclusion -- Chapter 15 - Issues in the Management of Workplace Diversity -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors.. - Some of the more troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity are illuminated in this volume - individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practised in the workplace. To help the reader understand some of these dilemmas, the contributors adopt a number of theoretical frameworks which are striking departures from traditional perspectives on diversity. These include: intergroup relations theory; critical theory; Jungian psychology; feminism; post- colonial theory; cultural history; postmodernism; realism; institutional theory; and class analysis. In addition, they examine different organizatio.. - Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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