Managing the organizational melting pot : dilemmas of workplace diversity / / editors, Pushkala Prasad ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 395 p.) : map
• Disciplina: 658.3/041
• Soggetto topico: Diversity in the workplace; Multiculturalism
• Altri autori: PrasadPushkala
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 WorkforceChapter 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 MasculinityChapter 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 Diversity; Part IV - Conclusion; Chapter 15 - Issues in the Management of Workplace Diversity ; Author IndexSubject Index; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Using examples from companies in Canada, USA, Great Britain and the Middle East, 'Managing the Organizational Melting Pot' examines the effects of increasing cultural diversity in the workplace.
• Titolo autorizzato: Managing the organizational melting pot
• ISBN: 0-8039-7410-8; 1-322-41818-7; 1-4522-6233-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827944503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II