158 research outputs found
Guest editorial. Global knowledge work and workers: new directions from diversity and equality perspectives (In special issue: Global Knowledge Workers)
No full textsj-pdf-1-wes-10.1177_09500170211035940 – Supplemental material for Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-wes-10.1177_09500170211035940 for Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations by Maryam Aldossari, Sara Chaudhry, Ahu Tatli and Cathrine Seierstad in Work, Employment and Society</p
Understanding the Agency of Diversity Managers: A Relational and Multilevel Investigation.
No full textPhDThis thesis aims to provide a critical realist account of diversity managers' agency,
incorporating a critique of the existing diversity management research. A multilevel and
relational analytical framework is offered in order to understand diversity managers'
agency. The framework interpreted and operationalised Bourdieu's key concepts,
`field', `habitus', `capitals' and `strategies' in the organisational context, for exploring
and explaining macro, meso and micro level influences on the agency of diversity
managers.
The macro-social field of diversity management is mapped out by analysing data from
an online national survey completed by diversity managers in the UK, and in-depth
interviews with diversity managers of large public and private sector organisations.
Then, findings of an extensive case study of Ford Motor Company, which includes
company documentation and interviews with the company's diversity managers, are
introduced to examine meso-organisational and micro-individual dynamics of diversity
managers' agency.
The analysis of the findings revealed that the agency of diversity managers is
multilayered and complex. Whilst the boundaries of this agency are drawn by the deeply
seated structures and mechanisms which are embedded in the fabric of social and
organisational lives, diversity managers own varying degrees of social, cultural and
symbolic capitals which are potential sources of power and influence, and they utilise
strategies in order to activate this potential and widen the scope of their agency.
The thesis addresses the limitations in diversity management literature, which are
associated with dualisms of agency and structure, and qualitative and quantitative
methods. It makes theoretical and methodological contribution by offering original
empirical evidence generated through a multi-method strategy and analysing diversity
managers' agency at the interplay of agentic and structural dynamics. It also offers
policy makers at organisational and national levels a realistic understanding of diversity
management processes that may inform design of more effective and progressive
policies and initiatives.School of Business and Management Queen Mary University
The European Union, the member states and equality – an uneasy relationship?
No full textThe chapter aims to explore the role of supranational organisations and the nation state in providing protection against discrimination, using the privileged vantage point offered by the European Union and its complex relationship with the Member States in the development and implementation of EU equality law. In outlining this regulatory system, the analysis reveals the key role played by the Court of Justice and the effect of its action on the interplay between the Member States and the EU, both at the level of the European institutions and in the interaction between legal orders. It also highlights that EU equality law is not only an integral part of the very identity of the EU as a common legal order: it also provides a crucial viewpoint for understanding the complexity of the European integration process and the tensions that vibrate between different national identities and the construction of a unitary one
Employment equality and diversity management in a Russian context
No full textDiversity management (DM) has been identified as a 'new paradigm' to address the demographic diversity of the workforce (Tatli et al., 2012, p. 1). Over the past two decades, the terms 'diversity' and 'diversity management' have travelled globally as transnational organizations and institutions have sought to introduce them in a range of settings. However, Calas et al. (2009, p. 349) remind us that what is meant by these terms in different national and cultural contexts may vary. Increasingly there has been recognition of the importance of national histories and social, cultural, economic, political and legal equality trajectories which have preceded the arrival of DM (Tatli et al., 2012). Klarsfeld (2010, p. 1) suggests the way forward on understanding DM should be 'to restore diversity to its national contexts'. Shen et al. (2009) point to the urgent need to extend research on 'diversity management' to its diffusion and translation in transitional and developing economies. This chapter considers DM in the Russian Federation (hereafter referred to as Russia) following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation in 1991 (Domsch and Lidokhover, 2007). Russia's size, unique history, diverse population, fast-growing economy and increasing penetration by multinational companies (MNCs) over the past two decades (Zavyalova et al., 2011) make it a fascinating example of a transitional economy
Questioning the legitimacy of Social Enterprises through Gramscian and Bourdieusian perspectives: the case of British Social Enterprises.
No full textDrawing on data from six social enterprises in the UK, this paper demonstrates that social enterprises negotiate their legitimacy borrowing from the state, the corporation and the service logics. The paper illustrates the existential crises of legitimacy as experienced in the social enterprise sector. The utility of a principled ethical approach is discussed as a way forward. The paper also outlines challenges that social enterprises face when adopting an ethical approach. Theoretical tools of Gramsci and Bourdieu are mobilized in the paper in order to render visible the often implicit and questioned structures of hegemonic power that shape the habitus of legitimacy in social enterprises
Equal access to the opportunities available? Equity and diversity laws and policies in Australia
No full textAustralia has been populated for more than 40,000 years with Indigenous Australians joined by European settlers only 230 years ago. The first settlers consisted of convicts from more than 28 countries and members of the British army who arrived in 1788 to establish a British penal colony. Mass migration in the nineteenth century with one and a half million immigrants from Europe, principally from the United Kingdom and Ireland (Haines and Shlomowitz, 1992), established the continent as an Anglo society in the Pacific. In the twentieth century immigrants came from many European countries and in the latter decades from many parts of Asia and the Middle East (Collins, 1991, pp.10-13). In the 21st century Australia has an ethnically and culturally diverse population. The original Indigenous population of Australia accounts for approximately 460,000 or 2.5 per cent of the total population (ABS, 2006a). Estimates are that around 4.5m. persons in the population (close to 20 per cent), were born outside Australia with the majority of these arriving from Europe, principally the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (ABS, 2006b). \ud
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Like many other countries, Australia has a legacy of discrimination and inequality in employment. Propelled by racist ideologies and the male breadwinner ideology, Indigenous Australians, and non-European immigrants, and women were barred from certain jobs and paid less for their work than any white male counterpart. These conditions were legally sanctioned through the industrial relations system and other laws in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Since the 1960s a dramatic change has occurred in social policy and national legislation and Australia today has an extensive array of laws which forbid employment discrimination on race, ethnicity, gender and many other characteristics, and other approaches which promote proactive organizational plans and actions to achieve equity in employment. This chapter outlines these developments.\u
CSR and leadership approaches and practices: a comparative inquiry of owners and professional executives
No full textThis study generates comparative insights into CSR approaches of owners and non-kin professional executives in an emerging country context, Turkey. Drawing on 61 interviews, we found that ownership status of the executive is crucial in shaping their CSR perceptions and practices. Owner-executives are empowered in pursuing CSR approaches based on their personal preferences and values; they have mostly societal aims. Professionals display tendency for company-related CSR practice; they exhibit greater knowledge of CSR, and their CSR initiatives are the results of strategic choices to enhance their power within the corporation. Our paper contributes to the debate on the drivers for CSR by accounting for both societal and individual influences on the CSR agency of these two key groups of executives. First, we develop a typology of CSR approaches of owners and professionals. Second, we provide insights from an emerging country context. Third, we present empirically grounded practice implications for CSR. <br/
Global Knowledge Work : Diversity and Relational Perspectives
No full textGlobal Knowledge Work is an up-to-date account of theoretical approaches and empirical research in the multi-disciplinary topic of global knowledge workers from a relational and diversity perspective. It includes contributions from international scholars and practitioners who have been working with the concept of global knowledge workers from a number of different perspectives, including personal and academic life trajectories. They reveal that the relational framework of the three dimensions of analysis (macro-meso-micro) is relevant for analyzing the phenomenon of global knowledge workers, as expertise and specialised knowledge and its innovative application, together with the attraction and retention of talent remain key topics in the current socioeconomic conditions
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