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Operationalizing Critical Diversity Theories: A Contextual Framework of Implementing New Diversity Practices

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Critical Studies in Diversity Management Literature

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Critical diversity studies have significantly contributed to demonstrate the contextual nature of diversity management practices, contingent upon a variety of interdependent factors operating at different levels of organizational life. Diversity management interventions are by necessity historically and societally embedded in various local, regional and national contexts. Relational approaches are of relevance to this purpose, in particular to fully explore the multi-level contextual dimensions of diversity initiatives; furthermore, prospects of organizational development and change, as well as the kind of rationalities involved in various diversity decisions, are context-specific and path-dependent, and as such, need to be integrated in a contextual framing of diversity discourses and initiatives. Finally, main findings of this study are summarized and discussed, with respect to a brief reference to the possibility of an intellectual encounter between certain trends in critical and more mainstream diversity management literature.

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Gotsis, G., Kortezi, Z. (2015). Operationalizing Critical Diversity Theories: A Contextual Framework of Implementing New Diversity Practices. In: Critical Studies in Diversity Management Literature. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9475-6_5

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