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Title Managing the organizational melting pot : dilemmas of workplace diversity / Pushkala Prasad ... [and others], editors
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1997]
©1997

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Description vii, 395 pages : map ; 24 cm
Contents 1. From Showcase to Shadow: Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity / Pushkala Prasad and Albert J. Mills -- 2. (In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference / J. Michael Cavanaugh -- 3. The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference: Rethinking the Different in the Construction of the Nonhierarchical Workplace / Collette Oseen -- 4. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Reflections of a Pale, Stale Male / Roy Jacques -- 5. Class Discipline: IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce / Richard Marsden -- 6. The Protestant Ethic and the Myths of the Frontier: Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring, and Workplace Diversity / Pushkala Prasad -- 7. Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations / Michael Elmes and Debra L. Connelley
8. Dueling Discourses: Desexualization Versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-1960 / Albert J. Mills -- 9. Women in the Academy: Cycles of Resistance and Compliance / Patricia Bradshaw and David Wicks -- 10. "We Have to Make a MANagement Decision": Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity / Mark Maier -- 11. When Organizations Do Harm: Two Cautionary Tales / Paula Caproni and Jocelyn A. Finley -- 12. The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other: A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil / Anshuman Prasad -- 13. Triple Jeopardy: Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force / E. Joy Mighty -- 14. How International Is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity / Diana Wong-MingJi and Ali H. Mir -- 15. Issues in the Management of Workplace Diversity / Anshuman Prasad and Michael Elmes
Summary "Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks - that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity - including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, authors examine a multitude of organizational situations in which the complications of diversity surface - many of which cross race, gender, ethnic, and other socially constructed boundaries." "Managing the Organizational Melting Pot draws examples not only from the United States, but also looks at situations from Canada, Britain, and the Middle East. Students, scholars, and managers who want to prepare themselves to deal with the challenges presented by a multicultural workforce will find this beneficial reading. In addition, researchers interested in conducting research in diversity management will find this an up-to-date, thought-provoking resource."--BOOK JACKET.tudents of ma
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Subject Diversity in the workplace.
Multiculturalism.
Author Prasad, Pushkala.
LC no. 96035610
ISBN 0803974108 (acid-free paper)
0803974116 (paperback: acid-free paper)
Other Titles Dilemmas of workplace diversity