Diversity Work in Organizations

Managing Diversity in Public Organizations

Purpose: This paper explores the managerial challenges posed by diversity in new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. Design/methodology/approach: Designing and implementing the diversity management agenda requires a deliberate and methodical managerial strategy that starts with a diagnosis of how diversity affects organizational performance. To take first step toward...

Understanding Ethical Diversity in Organizations

E thical diversity abounds in organizations. That is, there are diverse beliefs among employees, managers, and executives in organizations as to what are the most ethically appropriate or inappropriate courses of actions to take in their daily workplace situations. Consider the following five examples of ethical diversity, each of which comes from the authors’ direct work experience, consulting...

444–work, Organizations, and Markets

Far from supporting the widely held view that activist campaigns are changing corporate behavior, Seidman’s case studies point to the ineffectiveness of independent monitoring. Monitors do not usually have the time or resources to visit every site. Because monitors are dependent on corporate funding and need permission to access workplaces, their independence from the corporations they regulate...

Semantic Support for Work in Organizations

Work Groups and Teams in Organizations

Excerpt] Our objective in this chapter is to provide an integrative perspective on work groups and teams in organizations, one that addresses primary foci of theory and research, highlights applied implications, and identifies key issues in need of research attention and resolution. Given the volume of existing reviews, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, it uses representative...