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Diversity, Equality, Morality

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Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment

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In common with many other trends in management thinking, the diversity approach to employment issues has the status of a product — in the form of a technique — that is sold to managers through consultancy work and instructional books. Consequently, there is the problem of arriving at a clear understanding of what is meant by this talk of ‘diversity’ given that we are dealing here with a concept that has been packaged and repackaged in a search for potential buyers, and so not only lacks any definitive formulation but offers formulations that are none too mindful of very real obscurities and difficulties.

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  1. John Kaler
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  1. Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK

    Mike Noon (Professor of Human Resource Management) (Professor of Human Resource Management)

  2. Cardiff Business School, UK

    Emmanuel Ogbonna (Senior Lecturer, Director Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration) (Senior Lecturer, Director Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration)

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Kaler, J. (2001). Diversity, Equality, Morality. In: Noon, M., Ogbonna, E. (eds) Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977880_4

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