Managing the Organizational Melting Pot

Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity

Dr. Pushkala Prasad, Albert J. Mills, Michael B. Elmes, Anshuman Prasad

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN: 9780803974111
• eBook ISBN: 9781452262338
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

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 key 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. The volume also employs a variety of theoretical perspectives, including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, the 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Part I - Introduction
• Chapter 1 - From Showcase to Shadow: Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity
• Part II - Theorizing the Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity
• Chapter 2 - (In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference
• Chapter 3 - The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference: Rethinking the Different in the Construction of the Nonhierarchical Workplace
• Chapter 4 - The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Reflections of a Pale, Stale Male
• Chapter 5 - Class Discipline: IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce
• Chapter 6 - The Protestant Ethic and the Myths of the Frontier: Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring, and Workplace Diversity
• Chapter 7 - Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations
• Part III - Dilemmas of Diversity Management in Practice
• Chapter 8 - Dueling Discourses: Desexualization Versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-1960
• Chapter 9 - Women in the Academy: Cycles of Resistance and Compliance
• Chapter 10 - "We have to Make a MANagement Decision": Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity
• Chapter 11 - When Organizations do Harm: Two Cautionary Tales
• Chapter 12 - The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other: A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil
• Chapter 13 - Triple Jeopardy: Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force
• Chapter 14 - How International is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversi y
• Part IV - Conclusion
• Chapter 15 - Issues in the Management of Workplace Diversity
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors