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Author Bizjak, Davide, author.

Title Diversity management and identity in organisations : from liminality to inclusion / by Davide Bizjak.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 132 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-126) and index.
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Diversity in organisations; 1.3. A systematic analysis of diversity in the business and management literature; 1.3.1. The demographic turn; 1.3.2. The political turn; 1.3.3. The economic turn; 1.3.4. The critical turn; 1.4. Advocating a gender (and) identity turn; 1.5. Individual and organisational identity: an un-binary view; 1.6. Organisational resistance towards a hegemonic binary system; 1.7. From liminality to inclusion; Chapter Two; 2.1. Introduction
2.2. Defining 'discourse'2.2.1. Text; 2.3. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); 2.3.1. Being 'critical' in Critical Discourse Analysis; 2.3.2. Discourses as practices; 2.4. The concept of genre within organisation; 2.5. Practices in organisation; 2.5.1. The growing interest in bodies and artefacts in organisational studies; 2.5.2. Organisational knowledge; 2.6. Functional approach to discourse; 2.6.1. Functional metaphors; 2.7. Conclusions; Chapter Three; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. How to conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in organisational settings; 3.3. Texts in the CDA tradition
3.4. Defining context in CDA3.5. The use of word frequency queries with NVivo 11; 3.6. The use of cluster analysis with NVivo 11; 3.7. The empirical context; 3.7.1. The LGBT+ committee; 3.7.2. The county council: adult social care service; 3.7.3. Fire and rescue service; 3.7.4. The county law enforcement; 3.7.5. The university; 3.7.6. The multinational; 3.7.7. The charity; 3.8. Silencing identity/Voicing ide; 3.8.1. Voice and silence in organisations; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Appendix 6; Appendix 7; References; Index
Summary This book advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality, where gender is considered merely as a binary and diversity as something to manage, to inclusion, where diversity means a commitment to supporting a processual way to approach both belongingness and uniqueness within organisation. Through the use of Critical Discourse Analysis, the book investigates a series of UK county-based public and private bodies, combining the analysis of i.
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Subject Diversity in the workplace.
Diversity in the workplace.
Gender identity in the workplace.
Gender identity in the workplace.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Other Form: Print version: Bizjak, Davide. Diversity management and identity in organisations. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 9781527506534 (OCoLC)1031119322
ISBN 9781527524545 (electronic book)
152752454X (electronic book)
9781527506534
1527506533