Our CEO wrote this book. Her fundamental PhD research question was “Why have the diversity management strategies and initiatives of the mid-20th century not yielded significantly the type of social change they were intended to create?”. And more importantly, who do we still practice them? Something was, and is still amiss and it has to give. This is explored in Dismantling Diversity Management.
Dismantling Diversity Management emphasizes the vital importance of ethical and values-driven leadership and of living, not just spouting out, corporate values. It provides a valuable contribution to the international field of diversity management as it highlights the key flaws in traditional diversity management thinking. It presents a clear picture of the barriers in place which make it difficult to achieve desired outcomes within organizations and society. This book is a courageous and refreshing look at diversity. It not only provides a bold critique of how corporate structure has co-opted people into a diversity management model which perpetuates, rather than, transforms the status quo, it also maps out how to break this ineffective cycle.
Dismantling Diversity Management will be of interest to organizational development professionals, diversity and inclusion practitioners, senior executive officers and human resource and talent management professionals. It may not be what you want to hear, but it is what we all have to figure out how to do.
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