Management and Diversity

In the second of two volumes on management and diversity, business scholars from several countries discuss diversity, competence, performance, and creativity; diversity categories and discrimination: some critical reflections; and socio-political issues on diversity management and perspectives. Their topics include conducting a diversity policy as a management change agent: a key issue to an organization's performance, when freedoms collide: competing claims for religious rights and sexual orientation equality at work and beyond, generational diversity in organizations: a meta-analysis, trade unions and social dialogue: a challenge for diversity management, and diversity management as a career: the professional identity of diversity managers as a multi-level and political construct.

• IntroductionCompetence and Diversity: What Parallels Between Them? What Interconnections?Conducting a Diversity Policy as a Management Change Agent: A Key Issue to an Organisation's PerformanceCan the creative class thrive in an uncertainty avoidant society? A discussion of the Québec caseThe Stranger's Gaze*When Freedoms Collide: Competing Claims for Religious Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality at Work and BeyondPhysical Appearance as Invisible DiscriminationGenerational Diversity in Organisation: A Meta-AnalysisSacred Food at Work Canteen: For a Better Understanding of Religious Specificities and their Management at the WorkplaceDiversity Dimensions of Entrepreneurship: Addressing Multiple Strands of Diversity in Entrepreneurship ResearchTrade Unions and Social Dialogue: A Challenge for Diversity ManagementSwings and Roundabouts: Reconsidering Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Diversity Management in Australia from a Historical PerspectiveDiversity Management as a Career: Professional Identity of Diversity Managers as a Multi-level and Political ConstructConsequences of Neo-Liberal Politics on Equality and Diversity at Work in Britain: Is Resistance Futile?Diversifying Diversity: Creating an Integrative Agenda for the Evolution of Diversity as a Science and Practice1Epilogue: The Promise of Diversity Management: A Perspective