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Book SynopsisNowadays, managing and promoting diversity is of paramount importance to the future of sustainability and the political and business agenda. Despite a tremendous growth in diversity management scholarship in recent years, a strong tendency has emerged whereby existing theories focus on a single level of analysis, using a limited range of mostly Western research settings, and on a narrow range of diversity types. Diversity research has insofar focused on prioritizing visible forms of diversity, such as gender or disability, with less emphasis placed on diversity in culture and values internationally. This edited book provides new practical and strategic insights for practitioners, managers, students and policy makers; it delves into the strategic nature of policy intervention with thought-provoking contributions written by experts from around the world. Contributors aim to provide critical reflection of current debate areas on workplace equality and diversity in under-researched countries to inform and support evidence-based decision making for a wide variety of academic and practice-oriented stakeholders.
Trade ReviewScholars of management and other areas of business present insights into how the national and macro-social environment impacts institutional approaches to diversity management across the world. Their findings indicate a need for organizations to focus on deep-level diversity rather than choosing a tick-box policy on surface-level diversity. Among their topics are managing diversity in Nigeria, managing diversity in South African higher education institutions, gender in Venezuelan boards of directors, current balance of gender diversity for 21st-century socialism, diversity management in Taiwan: the case of the semiconductor industry, and diversity management and inclusion in Afghanistan. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversity within Diversity Management: Where We Are, Where We Should Go, How We Are Getting There;
Andri Georgiadou, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan Chapter 1: Managing Diversity in Nigeria: Competing Logics of Workplace Diversity;
Ifedapo Adeleye, Yomi Fawehinmi, Toyin Adisa; Kingsley Utam and Vivian Ikechukwu-Ifudu Chapter 2: Diversity Management: The Case of the United Arab Emirates;
Racquel Warner and Immanuel Azaad Moonesar Chapter 3: Diversity management in sustainability reports: A case study from Turkey;
Arzu Özsözgün Çalışkan and Emel Esen Chapter 4: Managing Diversity in Australia - a viable career option, social change agents or corporate stepping stone?;
Santina Bertone and Sanjeev Abeynayake Chapter 5: Diversity in the Czech Republic;
Eva Abramuszkinová Pavlíková Chapter 6: Diversity Management in Slovenia;
Vlado Dimovski, Sandra Penger, Judita Peterlin and Barbara Grah Chapter 7: Managing Diversity in South African Higher Education Institutions;
Sharon Thabo Mampane Chapter 8: Gastronomy as a National Identity Element. The Peruvian Case;
Oswaldo Morales and Carlos Cordova Chapter 9: Gender in Venezuelan Board of Directors and C-Level Positions: Current balance of gender diversity for 21st Century Socialism;
Carlos M. Baldo, Carmen Aurora Matteo and Kyle Hull Chapter 10: Diversity Management in Poland;
Anna Rakowska Chapter 11: A changing country: Diversity Management in Greece;
George Kyparissiadis Chapter 12: Insights from workplace diversity and inclusion policies of a foreign firm in the Nigeria banking sector;
Osaro O. Agbontaen Chapter 13: Managing diversity in Trinidad and Tobago;
Jacqueline H. Stephenson Chapter 14: Shifting landscapes of diversity in India: New meaning or a contextual shift?;
Richa Saxena and Vibhav Singh Chapter 15: Diversity Management in Taiwan;
Jennet Achyldurdyyeva, Christina Yu-Ping Wang, Hsien-Tang Lin and Bih- Shiaw Jaw Chapter 16: Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Society and the Dimensions of Diversity: An Overview of the Canadian National Context;
Francesca Croce Chapter 17: Diversity Management and Inclusion in Afghanistan;
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba
