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Research Handbook on Global Diversity Management
This Research Handbook provides an insightful examination of how diversity intersects with international management practices and highlights the importance of balancing inclusion with local responsiveness. It focuses on the experiences of individuals from a multitude of perspectives including race, gender, LGBTQ+ identities, and disabilities.
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This Research Handbook provides an insightful examination of how diversity intersects with international management practices and highlights the importance of balancing inclusion with local responsiveness. It focuses on the experiences of individuals from a multitude of perspectives including race, gender, LGBTQ+ identities and disabilities.
This Research Handbook explores the management of workplace diversity worldwide, drawing from a broad range of cultural, legal and disciplinary outlooks. Crucial topics such as migration, co-worker relationships, digitalisation and allyship are investigated to showcase the many evolving elements of workplaces. Chapters set out helpful advice for organisations to improve diversity management practices, and equip readers to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
The Research Handbook on Global Diversity Management is an essential read for students and scholars focusing on business and management, gender equality, international business, and diversity management. The strategies for reducing inequality introduced within this Research Handbook also benefit human resource professionals.
This Research Handbook explores the management of workplace diversity worldwide, drawing from a broad range of cultural, legal and disciplinary outlooks. Crucial topics such as migration, co-worker relationships, digitalisation and allyship are investigated to showcase the many evolving elements of workplaces. Chapters set out helpful advice for organisations to improve diversity management practices, and equip readers to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion.
The Research Handbook on Global Diversity Management is an essential read for students and scholars focusing on business and management, gender equality, international business, and diversity management. The strategies for reducing inequality introduced within this Research Handbook also benefit human resource professionals.
Critical Acclaim
‘Özbilgin and Erbil have brought together a great collection of authors to offer an essential resource for understanding the critical importance of leveraging cultural, demographic, national, technological, and ecological diversity to drive organizational innovation and creativity. This volume could not have come at a better time as the globe faces an unprecedented poly-crisis requiring transformative leadership and new ways of thinking about diversity.’
– Stella Nkomo, Emeritus Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
– Stella Nkomo, Emeritus Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Contents
Contents
Introduction to Global Diversity Management: towards a new deal between
human diversity, nature and technology 1
Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil
PART I STRANDS OF DIVERSITY AND GLOBAL DIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT
1 Race, ethnicity, gender, and global diversity management 12
Diane Chilangwa Farmer, Doyin Atewologun, and Moe Iwata
2 Cross-cultural perspectives on global diversity management: values,
meaning and power intersections 25
Jasmin Mahadevan
3 Releasing the untapped potential of highly skilled migrants through
global diversity management: evidence from firms in Turkey 40
Deniz Palalar Alkan and Rıfat Kamaşak
4 Surviving the maze: exploring elite migrant experiences of diversity,
hierarchy and status in the global diaspora 54
Kathleen Park
5 A critical inquiry into the dark side of inclusion in LGBTQ+ friendly
work contexts and global diversity management practices 69
Erhan Aydın, Emir Özeren and Paul McEvoy Clarke
6 The invisible disability of dyslexia in French organizations: framing
disability as a skill through global diversity management 79
Damien Aimar
7 Board diversity management in FTSE 350 – so close and yet so far:
reflections and the way forward 91
Rita Goyal and Nada Kakabadse
PART II INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL
DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
8 Time to delve into the weeds: illuminating the diversity to performance
black box by exploring co-worker relationships 108
Juliet Bourke
9 Digitalisation, social media and disadvantage: towards a reflexive
global diversity management within rising posthuman conditions 123
Lakshman Wimalasena
10 Toward a universal declaration of robot rights? Building robots into
global diversity 138
Kamil Mamak
11 Algorithms and global diversity management 148
Olivia Kyriakidou
12 The work–life interface and global diversity management 164
T. Alexandra Beauregard
13 The psychology of global diversity management 175
Veysi Tanrıverdi
14 Self-leadership and global diversity management 191
Babar Dharani
15 Leadership and global diversity management: challenges and solutions
through participatory theater framework 204
Aybike Mergen and Çağla Güven
16 The Diversity Practitioner’s role in the context of global diversity
management: reflections and experiences 216
Jane Franklin and Fiona Bartels-Ellis
17 Leaders as allies for equality, diversity, and inclusion: effective and
ineffective approaches to allyship as a global diversity intervention 232
Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Cihat Erbil and Itır Aykut
PART III CONTEXTUAL INSIGHTS ON GLOBAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
18 Decolonizing DEI knowledge and practices in Africa: embracing the
Bantu-Kongo concept of Mbongi 249
Jacobs (Mbango) Sihela and Kurt April
19 Global diversity and inclusion: the case of Australia 278
Dimitria Groutsis
20 Iranian movement (#WomenLifeFreedom): a catalyst for global diversity 289
Sanaz Zadeh
21 Highly skilled health workers: migration, work, and diversity management 302
Franklin Oikelome
22 Automotive industry and global diversity management: an Eastern
European perspective 317
Emil Velinov
Contents vii
23 Teaching global diversity, equity and inclusion through the lenses of
queer theory 329
Emil Velinov and Aneta Hamza-Orlinska
Introduction to Global Diversity Management: towards a new deal between
human diversity, nature and technology 1
Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil
PART I STRANDS OF DIVERSITY AND GLOBAL DIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT
1 Race, ethnicity, gender, and global diversity management 12
Diane Chilangwa Farmer, Doyin Atewologun, and Moe Iwata
2 Cross-cultural perspectives on global diversity management: values,
meaning and power intersections 25
Jasmin Mahadevan
3 Releasing the untapped potential of highly skilled migrants through
global diversity management: evidence from firms in Turkey 40
Deniz Palalar Alkan and Rıfat Kamaşak
4 Surviving the maze: exploring elite migrant experiences of diversity,
hierarchy and status in the global diaspora 54
Kathleen Park
5 A critical inquiry into the dark side of inclusion in LGBTQ+ friendly
work contexts and global diversity management practices 69
Erhan Aydın, Emir Özeren and Paul McEvoy Clarke
6 The invisible disability of dyslexia in French organizations: framing
disability as a skill through global diversity management 79
Damien Aimar
7 Board diversity management in FTSE 350 – so close and yet so far:
reflections and the way forward 91
Rita Goyal and Nada Kakabadse
PART II INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL
DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
8 Time to delve into the weeds: illuminating the diversity to performance
black box by exploring co-worker relationships 108
Juliet Bourke
9 Digitalisation, social media and disadvantage: towards a reflexive
global diversity management within rising posthuman conditions 123
Lakshman Wimalasena
10 Toward a universal declaration of robot rights? Building robots into
global diversity 138
Kamil Mamak
11 Algorithms and global diversity management 148
Olivia Kyriakidou
12 The work–life interface and global diversity management 164
T. Alexandra Beauregard
13 The psychology of global diversity management 175
Veysi Tanrıverdi
14 Self-leadership and global diversity management 191
Babar Dharani
15 Leadership and global diversity management: challenges and solutions
through participatory theater framework 204
Aybike Mergen and Çağla Güven
16 The Diversity Practitioner’s role in the context of global diversity
management: reflections and experiences 216
Jane Franklin and Fiona Bartels-Ellis
17 Leaders as allies for equality, diversity, and inclusion: effective and
ineffective approaches to allyship as a global diversity intervention 232
Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Cihat Erbil and Itır Aykut
PART III CONTEXTUAL INSIGHTS ON GLOBAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
18 Decolonizing DEI knowledge and practices in Africa: embracing the
Bantu-Kongo concept of Mbongi 249
Jacobs (Mbango) Sihela and Kurt April
19 Global diversity and inclusion: the case of Australia 278
Dimitria Groutsis
20 Iranian movement (#WomenLifeFreedom): a catalyst for global diversity 289
Sanaz Zadeh
21 Highly skilled health workers: migration, work, and diversity management 302
Franklin Oikelome
22 Automotive industry and global diversity management: an Eastern
European perspective 317
Emil Velinov
Contents vii
23 Teaching global diversity, equity and inclusion through the lenses of
queer theory 329
Emil Velinov and Aneta Hamza-Orlinska
