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Book SynopsisDiversity in Action: Managing Diverse Talent in a Global Economy examines one of the most important and topical issue related to diversity management, namely implementing effective strategies for managing diverse talent groups. Highlighting both theoretical issues regarding diversity management and their practical implications, Marina Latukha’s wide ranging collection investigates how different management practices focusing on diverse talent groups are realised in order to provide systematic assessments on existing diversity challenges.
Diversity in Action uniquely features diversity within diversity as the main topic within its analysis. Content covers different types of employees in its focus of diversity management practices in global economies. Groups explored in relation to human resource and talent management practices include but not limited to management of different generations and migrants and diaspora’ representatives employed in modern organizations. There is also discussion of gender-focused initiatives to present the dialog about female talent management and the way it influences organizational results.
Diversity in Action highlights the latest development in relation to strategies and practices on diversity management, providing specific examples of how different talent diverse groups should be involved in organizational business processes and effectively managed.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Marina Latukha
Part 1. Gender Diversity in Research and Organizational Realities
Chapter 2. Careers of women in Japan: Different identities, work attitudes, and career paths; Fabian Jintae Froese, Azusa Hitosuyanagi-Hansel, and Alara Yaman
Chapter 3. Stigmatization of women in the workplace: Sources of stigma and its consequences at the individual, organizational, and societal level; Ksenia Keplinger and Andria Smith
Chapter 4. From women empowerment to gender diversity: Empirical evidence from non-Western contexts; Raushan Aman, Reem Alothmany, Maria Elo, and Julie Emontspool
Part 2. Are Generations Really Different? Multiple Strategies to Manage Different Generations
Chapter 5. Managerial and entrepreneurial responses to emerging market institutions: Problematizing review; Irina Mihailova
Chapter 6. Intergenerational perspective of family firms’ internationalization: implications for talent management; Plakoyiannaki Emmanuella and Kryrlivetz Anna
Chapter 7. Does generation matter for the use of I4.0 technologies?; Małgorzata Bartosik-Purgat, Barbara Jankowska, and Ewa Mińska-Struzik
Part 3. Migrants, Returnees and Diasporas’ Inclusion: Creating Global Talent Pool
Chapter 8. Language diversity - Multi-ethnic migrant and diaspora resources for international business and entrepreneurship; Maria Elo, Tanvi Kothari, and Maria Ivanova-Gongne
Chapter 9. Catch 22? Technology-advanced returnee entrepreneur, home-country political relationships and challenges from increasing geopolitical tension; Wensong Bai and Pao T. Kao
Chapter 10. Leveraging diaspora opportunities for destinations: The triadic bonds to global ethnic diversity analysis; Liana Rysakova and Andrei Panibratov
Chapter 11. Diasporas as an international staffing option: Opportunities and threats during business internationalisation; Iris Koleša and Andreja Jaklič
Part 4. Multifaceted Diversity in Global World
Chapter 12. The Role of diversity in emerging circular business models; Della-Maria M. Marinova and Svetla T. Marinova
Chapter 13. Talent management and HRM practices in SOEs: Review and opportunities for diversity management research; Alexey Kalinin and Daria Klishevich
Chapter 14. Is there a place for neurodiversity in the talent pool?; Emily Russo, Dana L. Ott, and Miriam Moeller
Chapter 15. Diversity and inclusion in cyber security early careers; Della-Maria M. Marinova and Svetla T. Marinova
