Diversity in Organizations

Heike Mensi-Klarbach is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Department of Management at WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.Annette Risberg is Professor of Organization and Management at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

This much-needed companion guides readers through diversity theory and practice. A collaboration of leading diversity thinkers and practitioners consider the importance of contextualizing diversity debates and practices within their historical and cultural contexts: a must-read which appreciates diversity and its management in nuanced, sophisticated and precise ways.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I FRAMEWORK FOR DIVERSITYChapter 1 Setting the scene for understandingdiversity in organizationsChapter 2 Diversity in Europe: its development and contourChapter 3 Diversity management: historical development and different rationalesPART II DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS AND AT DIFFERENT LEVELSChapter 4 Diversity in contextChapter 5 The ‘doing differences’ perspective on gender and diversityChapter 6 Diversity in teamsPART III PRACTICING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIONChapter 7 Diversity as strategyChapter 8 Organizational analysisChapter 9 Organizational implementation: diversity practices and toolsChapter 10 Diversity change and resistanceEPILOGUE DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND BEYONDChapter 11 Critical reflections on diversity management