Handbook of Workplace Diversity

Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books "It is, in fact, a book that every academic and practitioner alike should read. This book does a very good job of presenting a diversity of methodological approaches to the study of diversity in the workplace."

Dr. Judith Pringle is a Professor of Organisation Studies in the Management department in the AUT Faculty of Business and Law. Her specialist research interests lie in the areas of women, gender, diversity and careers. She currently teaches Gender and Diversity in Organisations at postgraduate level. She is a co-investigator on the Marsden funded grant Glamour and grind: New Creative Workers, co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Workplace Diversity (2006) and The New Careers: Individual Action and Economic Change (1999). She published chapters in edited books and wide ranging articles in journals such as Gender Work and Organization, British Journal of Management, International Journal of HRM, Journal of World Business, Personnel Review, Organization, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Women and Management Review, Women Studies Journal (NZ) and consistently contributes to international conferences. She is on the editorial board for British Journal of Management, editor for the Gender and Diversity division of Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and member of the European Groups of Organization Studies Standing Group on Gender and Diversity. She has four Emerald journal citations.

Judith is a Pakeha New Zealander who grew up on a sheep farm in the South Island. Her academic study began in psychology culminating in a doctorate in social psychology. Study was interrupted by OE (overseas experience) where she had 19 different jobs in a variety of countries. Before her academic career she was a self-employed consultant with large and small public and private sectors organisations.

Over the last two decades (formerly at University of Auckland) she has researched extensively issues relating to the various experiences of women in organisations. This has been an evolutionary research pathway exploring strategies used by women in male-dominated organisations, experiences of senior women managers and leaders, the functioning and cultures of Pakeha, Maori and Pacific Island women-run organisations (non-profit and business). A related research strand is how individuals change and adapt their careers to shifting job opportunities. With colleagues she has critiqued and broken open the traditional career theory to create more inclusive models that are better labelled as career-life frames.

Earlier methodologies were within a positivist paradigm while latterly she has been greatly influenced by the emergence of critical approaches. Now she researches, and supervises graduate students, working primarily in an interpretive paradigm. Data is drawn from interviews and ethnographic materials and meaning made through life history and narrative analyses.
Judith is coordinator of the Gender and Diversity Research Group, an AUT wide network of researchers

Pushkala Prasad, Judith K. Pringle, & Alison M. Konrad Examining the Contours of Workplace Diversity: Concepts, Contexts and Challenges; PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WORKPLACE DIVERSITY; Carol T Kulik and Hugh T J Bainbridge Psychological Perspectives on Workplace Diversity; Ellen Ernst Kossek, Sharon A Lobel and Jennifer Brown Human Resource Strategies to Manage Workforce Diversity: Examining 'The Business Case'; Deborah Litvin Diversity: Making Space for a Better Case; Yvonne Due Billing and Elisabeth Sundin From Managing Equality to Managing Diversity: A Critical Scandinavian Perspective on Gender and Workplace Diversity; Anshuman Prasad The Jewel in the Crown: Postcolonial Theory and Workplace Diversity; Deborah Jones and Ralph Stablein Diversity as Resistance and Recuperation: Critical Theory, Post-Structuralist Perspectives and Workplace Diversity; Raza Mir, Ali Mir and Diana Wong Diversity: The Cultural Logic of Global Capital; PART TWO: METHODS FOR STUDYING WORKPLACE DIVERSITY; David A Harrison and Hock-Peng Sin What Is Diversity and How Should It Be Measured?; Amy Thurlow, Albert J Mills and Jean Helms Mills Feminist Qualitative Research and Workplace Diversity; Donna Chrobot-Mason, Alison M Konrad and Frank Linnehan Measures for Quantitative Diversity Scholarship; PART THREE: DIMENSIONS OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY; Yvonne Benschop Of Small Steps and the Longing for Giant Leaps: Research on the Intersection of Sex and Gender with Work and Organization; Jeff Hearn and David L Collinson Men, Masculinities and Workplace Diversity/Diversion: Power, Intersections and Contradictions; Karen L Proudford and Stella Nkomo Race and Ethnicity in Organizations; Elissa L Perry and Jennifer D Parlamis Age and Ageism in Organizations: A Review and Consideration of National Culture; W E Douglas Creed Seven Conversations about the Same Thing: Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Workplace; Eugene F Stone-Romero, Dianna L Stone and Kimberly Lukaszewski The Influence of Disability on Role-Taking in Organizations; Maureen Scully and Stacy Blake-Beard Locating Class in Organizational Diversity Work: Class as Structure, Style and Process; Myrtle P Bell and Mary E McLaughlin Outcomes of Appearance and Obesity in Organizations; Kiran Mirchandani and Alana Butler Beyond Inclusion and Equity: Contributions from Transnational Anti-Racist Feminism; Anne-Marie Greene and Gill Kirton Trade Unions and Equality and Diversity; Amanda Sinclair Critical Diversity Management Practice in Australia: Romanced or Co-Opted?; PART FOUR: CONCLUSION; Judith K Pringle, Pushkala Prasad and Alison M Konrad Reflections and Future Directions.