Navigating the moral-economic paradox of diversity management: plurality of stakeholder perceptions and coping strategies

M Jaeck, M Marais, C Joly… - Group & Organization …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Managing diversity is a challenge for many organizations and their diversity initiatives are
often criticized for an inability to produce tangible outcomes. One reason for such mixed …

Rethinking diversity strategies: An application of paradox and positive organization behavior theories

DA Waldman, JL Sparr - Academy of Management Perspectives, 2023 - journals.aom.org
Diversity is a topic that is garnering much attention in society and organizations.
Unfortunately, diversity initiatives have the potential to focus only on diversity while …

Understanding diversity management practices: Implications of institutional theory and resource-based theory

Y Yang, AM Konrad - Group & Organization Management, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Diversity management practices consist of the set of formalized practices developed and
implemented by organizations to manage diversity effectively among all organizational …

Benevolent discrimination: Explaining how human resources professionals can be blind to the harm of diversity initiatives

L Romani, L Holck, A Risberg - Organization, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to critical diversity management studies by exploring how human
resources professionals do not see that the diversity measures they initiate can contribute to …

Future challenges for practices of diversity management in organizations

Y Benschop, C Holgersson, M Van den Brink, A Wahl - 2015 - academic.oup.com
In this chapter, we zoom in on a set of diversity practices that prevail in organizations:
training, mentoring, and networks. These practices meet scholarly critique for their lack of …

Diversity management as navigation through organizational paradoxes

R Nadiv, S Kuna - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Accumulated evidence suggests that efforts at diversity management (DM) yield
mixed results or even fail in terms of promoting workforce diversity. Previous scholarly …

Diversity at a critical juncture: New theories for a complex phenomenon

SM Nkomo, MP Bell, LM Roberts, A Joshi… - Academy of …, 2019 - journals.aom.org
In 2015 we issued a call for papers for a Special Topic Forum (STF) on Diversity at a Critical
Juncture in response to contextual shifts that raised questions regarding the assumptions …

Diversity initiative effectiveness: A typological theory of unintended consequences

LM Leslie - Academy of Management Review, 2019 - journals.aom.org
The purpose of diversity initiatives is to help groups that face disadvantage in society
achieve better outcomes in organizations, but they do not necessarily work as intended. To …

Diversity management: A critical review and agenda for the future

T Köllen - Journal of Management Inquiry, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although a widespread management approach, diversity management is far from being a
well-defined and unambiguous one. This article outlines how this management practice …

Diversity and diversity policy: diving into fundamental differences

AR Van Ewijk - Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to offer scholars an analytical framework to identify
what the fundamental choices are in the definition of diversity (the what), in the motivation for …