Global Diversity Management An Evidence-Based Approach

by Ozbilgin, Mustafa; Tatli, Ahu; Jonsen, Karsten

• ISBN13: 9781137334350
• ISBN10: 1137334355
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Global Diversity Management provides a rigorous and methodological toolkit for assessing diversity management techniques and strategies. The multi-layered and multi-level global approach contextualizes the issues and provides a comprehensive understanding of diversity management as a whole. Grounded in original empirical research and firmly linked to best-practice strategies, this is a benchmark text for the study of equality.

Key features:

• Fully updated new edition provides a comprehensive real-world perspective of diversity in competitive organizations.
• A wide range of international case studies brings the subject to life.
• Blends state of the art theoretical discussions with empirical evidence.

This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying diversity management, as well as practitioners, researchers and scholars in the field.

Author Biography

Mustafa Ozbilgin is Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, University of Brunel, UK. He has previously held visiting posts at Cornell University, Japan Institute of Labor Policy and Training and CEPS-INSTEAD-Luxembourg.

 
Ahu Tatli is a Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University London, UK.
 

Karsten Jonsen is a Research Fellow at IMD in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction

PART I

2. Theory of Global Diversity Management

PART II

3. Diversity Management at the National Level

4. Diagnostic Equality and Diversity Checks

5. Discourses of Diversity Management: Telling the Story of Diversity Management

PART III

6. The Case of Private Sector Recruitment Agencies

7. The Case of Work Placements in the Creative and Cultural Industries

PART IV

8. The Organizational Level: The Case of a Global Automobile Manufacturing Company

9. Individual Effects: The Agency of the Diversity Manager

10. Individual Effects: The Case of a Global Automobile Manufacturing Company

PART V

11. The Challenges Facing Global Diversity Management