Managing the Organizational Melting Pot

Dr. Pushkala Prasad - Skidmore College, USA, University of New Haven, USA, Lund University, Sweden
Albert J. Mills - St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Michael B. Elmes - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Anshuman Prasad - University of New Haven, USA

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June 1997 | 403 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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 organizational situations in which complex predicaments of diversity surface - many of which cross race, gender, ethnic and other socially constructed boundaries.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Pushkala Prasad and Albert J Mills

From Showcase to Shadow

Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity

PART TWO: THEORIZING THE DILEMMAS OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY

J Michael Cavanagh

(In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference

Collette Oseen

The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference

Re-Thinking the Difference in the Construction of the Non-Hierarchical Workplace

Roy Jacques

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Reflections of a Pale, Stale, Male

Richard Marsden

Class Discipline

IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce

Pushkala Prasad

The Protestant Ethic and Myths of the Frontier

Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring and Workplace Diversity

Michael B Elmes and Debra L Connelley

Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations

PART THREE: DILEMMAS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

Albert J Mills

Dueling Discourses

Desexualization versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-60

Pat Bradshaw and David Wicks

Women in the Academy

Cycles of Resistance and Compliance

Mark Maier

`We Have To Make a Management Decision'

Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity

Paula Caproni and Joycelyn Finley

When Organizations Do Harm

Two Cautionary Tales

Anshuman Prasad

The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other

A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil

E Joy Mighty

Triple Jeopardy

Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force

Diana J Wong-MingJi and Ali Husain Mir

How International Is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity

PART FIVE: CONCLUSION

Anshu Prasad and Michael B Elmes

Issues in the Management of Diversity

On receipt of book, realised it was not suitable for the Masters programme. However, I have given it to a colleague, Senior Lecturer in Management and have asked for feedback. Will post.

Mrs Nicola Sowe

NBS Consultancy and Training, NBS Consultancy and Training (Teaching and Learning)

May 3, 2012

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