2008
DOI: 10.1504/ijmcp.2008.021273
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Othering diversity – a Levinasian analysis of diversity management

Abstract: Several studies have suggested both creative advantages and disadvantages of diversity. Much of this discrepancy can be explained by a deeper conceptual ambiguity. Levinasian ethics emphasises the Other as infinitely different. This article uses Levinasian ethics to investigate the distinction between categorisable differences and the multiplicity of otherness. In this process of 'othering' diversity, the ambiguity in the field is unravelled, as creativity in organisations depends not on 'managing' differences… Show more

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“…Thus, the other's call demonstrates a risk of critique and a questioning of one's own beliefs and common sense (Levinas, 1969, p. 43). At the same time, the call of the other allows for selftransformation and development as it changes the way the self sees both the other and the self (Muhr, 2008a, see also Werhane, 1995).…”
Section: The Ethical Encounter With the Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, the other's call demonstrates a risk of critique and a questioning of one's own beliefs and common sense (Levinas, 1969, p. 43). At the same time, the call of the other allows for selftransformation and development as it changes the way the self sees both the other and the self (Muhr, 2008a, see also Werhane, 1995).…”
Section: The Ethical Encounter With the Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The very idea that diversity management can work as an unbiased mechanism seeking social justice is naïve and even at times unethical (Muhr, 2008). Rather, in order to resist the subjugating power of diversity, it becomes the main objective to "unmask 'hidden' contexts and 'invisible' power relations" (Ahonen et al, 2014, p. 270) and questioning established structures of domination and subordination (Meriläinen et al, 2009).…”
Section: Post-structural Perspectives In Diversity Researchtransgressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rather, in order to resist the subjugating power of diversity, it becomes the main objective to "unmask 'hidden' contexts and 'invisible' power relations" (Ahonen et al, 2014, p. 270) and questioning established structures of domination and subordination (Meriläinen et al, 2009). Post-structural approaches to diversity therefore often argue for an un-categorical approach (Muhr, 2008), or at least one in which the categories are rethought as events, actions, and encounters between bodies, i.e. relational existence as becoming rather than as being (Puar, 2012).…”
Section: Post-structural Perspectives In Diversity Researchtransgressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This conceptualization of écriture féminine is therefore not a writing tied to women — and the female (or feminine) body — only (Fotaki et al ., ; Phillips et al ., ). In this view, écriture féminine is about transgressing, destabilizing and breaking with gender categories rather than building new ones (see also Linstead and Pullen, ; Muhr, ; Muhr and Sullivan, ).…”
Section: Gender (Writing) Troublementioning
confidence: 99%