2005
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705053424
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Abstract: Contrary to current definitions of diversity as a set of a priori sociodemographic characteristics, this study re-conceptualizes diversity as an organizational product. Through the analysis of qualitative data from four service organizations, we show that organization-specific understandings of diversity are based on the way employees' sociodemographic differences affect the organization of work, either contributing to it or hampering it. Such understandings of diversity, in turn, shape organization-specific a… Show more

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“…Women, however, were also expected to conform to the ways these managers defined femininity. The arguments used to legitimize the underrepresentation of women and minorities varied by organizational context and reflect arguments about the contextuality of constructions of diversity made by other scholars (such as Acker 1990, Janssens andZanoni 2005). In contrast, the discourses that served as resources for these arguments converged in essentialism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Women, however, were also expected to conform to the ways these managers defined femininity. The arguments used to legitimize the underrepresentation of women and minorities varied by organizational context and reflect arguments about the contextuality of constructions of diversity made by other scholars (such as Acker 1990, Janssens andZanoni 2005). In contrast, the discourses that served as resources for these arguments converged in essentialism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…of social diversity, that is, their homogeneity, due to the underrepresentation of social groups such as women and ethnic and sexual minorities (see, for example, Zandvliet 2002, Wirth 2004, OSA 2005, Lopez-Claros and Sahidi 2010, Netherlands 2010. We assume, therefore, that social diversity is not a neutral or natural fact but a discourse that is informed by a constellation of social relations of power such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality that constitute organizational members (Zanoni and Janssens 2003, Janssens and Zanoni 2005, Prasad et al 2006. In this paper, we explore the relationship between managerial understandings of diversity and of these three social relations of power.…”
Section: Managerial Practices Of Diversity and Homogeneitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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