Global Diversity Management by Mustafa Ozbilgin
This book offers a rigorous and methodological toolkit for assessing diversity management techniques and strategies. Ozbilgin and Tatli have created a benchmark text for the study of equality.This book offers a set of conceptual frameworks for analyzing diversity management, providing students with a rigorous and methodological toolkit for assessing diversity management techniques and strategies. The multi-layered approach helps students to contextualize the issues and understand the complete picture of diversity management, not just a single aspect. The funnelling structure, covering macro to micro aspects helps students to appreciate diversity management issues at different levels of analysis. The book encourages a critical approach to the analysis of diversity management through the examination of a wide range of comparative diversity management techniques.The pedagogical approach will support the student in achieving the stated learning outcomes with a combination of learning activities, such as a 'Desk Research' feature (whereby students will practice methodological approaches to analyzing comparative techniques, journal articles etc), web based exercises, case studies, in-group discussion exercises, comparative examples and a glossary. It is only through understanding diversity that businesses can achieve equality and cohesion in the workplace. Ozbilgin and Tatli's "Global Diversity Management" focuses on extensive original research through a critical approach and arrives at a comprehensive real-world perspective of diversity in competitive organizations.
'Ozbilgin and Tatli have put the 'global' into diversity management by providing insight into the way cross-national approaches and the nature of an international labour force impact on organisational strategiesThis provides an important addition to the literature on diversity management and will be of value to practitioners and students of equality and diversity alike.' - Professor Geraldine Healy, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. 'This book is ambitious in its global scope and multi-level framework, and convincingly argues that global diversity management provides a challenge to many stakeholders. Ozbilgin and Tatli combine state of the art theoretical discussions with many real life examples. Its base in original research, its context sensitivity and its explicit attention for the power processes and politics tied to the sensitive issue that diversity is in many organizations, make this an excellent read for students, researchers and practitioners alike.' - Yvonne Benschop, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands 'Global Diversity Management draws rapt attention to diversity and equality at a global level. Ozbilgin and Tatli call for context specific frames to truly understand global diversity and for attention to the voices of multiple stakeholders of the process. Scholarly, rich, and grounded, yet understandable, this provocative book is important for students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of diversity and in the larger management community.' - Myrtle P. Bell, Associate Professor of Management, University of Texas-Arlington, USA 'How wonderful to have at last a book about global diversity management, one which not only takes a multi-levelled approach based on sound research evidence but is at the same time extremely thoughtful and thought-provoking! The case studies from different parts of the world provide invaluable material for students, academics and practitioners. And the approaches to and definitions of diversity presented combined with analysis of the key drivers in taking up diversity initiatives in different parts of the globe contribute greatly to the increasingly critical diversity debate.' - Linda Clarke, Professor of Industrial Relations, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK 'Global Diversity Management is a carnal text, as the authors suggest in their introduction, and therefore, brings great pleasure. Numerous cases and diversity topics (cultural industry, manufacturing, recruitment sector, gender gap, diversity audits, professionalization), research methods (case studies, documentary analysis, indepth interviews and questionnaires to examine organisational level dynamics) and tools (diagnostic checks, investigating instruments, diversity audits) present an inspiration to diversity research and change processes. Developing a theoretical framework, Mustafa Ozbilgin and Ahu Tatli are able to show how global diversity works with coupled effects (national, organizational, sectoral, individual, discoursive). It's clear that they are a kind of tempered radical academics who use their theoretical strength and practical experience to challenge binary distinctions in the diversity discourse, including even the differences present at global/local diversity levels. They are able to discover deep rooted reasons of false binary distinctions as there are paradoxes, rational myths about reality and socially made distinctions as resources in symbolic capital. They are venturing diversity! An inspiration to diversity research and change processes.' - Dr. Iris Koall, University of Dortmund 'This book is a very welcome addition to the Diversity Management field. There is a fresh approach to the material which is embedded in critical theory and real-life examples derived from seven diversity-related research projects. The case studies, which take place in a range of industries and countries, are engaging and bring to light key issues diversity management researchers and practitioners will find valuable. The authors focus on global and agentic domains of diversity management and they investigate matters at both the organizational and individual levels. I strongly recommend this book to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers and practitioners in the Diversity Management and International Human Resource Management fields.' - Dr. Nicolina Kamenou, Lecturer in HRM and Diversity Management, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK 'This is an engaging book, founded on fresh empirical research studies. These authors are not afraid to raise the tensions and paradoxes within the management of diversity. It is as informative for effective diversity practitioners as it is for students and academics involved in equity, diversity teaching and research.' - Judith Pringle, Professor of Organisation Studies, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand 'This book offers both practitioners and academics a theoretically grounded yet practically focussed text to assist in the study and practice of managing equality and diversity strategy in the global workplace.' Tony Bennett, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr. MUSTAFA OZBILGIN is Professor of Human Resource Management at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. He has previously held visiting posts at Cornell University, Japan Institute of Labor Policy and Training and CEPS-INSTEAD-Luxembourg. DR. AHU TATLI is a Lecturer in International Human Resource Management at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University London, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781403996107 |
| ISBN 10 | 1403996105 |
| Title | Global Diversity Management |
| Author | Mustafa Ozbilgin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave USA |
| Year published | 2008-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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