Best Practices for Managing Organizational Diversity

Kreitz, Patricia A.

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2007.12.001

Cited by 138 publications

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“…The diversity management literature consistently advocates for top leadership's unwavering commitment to diversity to ensure sustainable organizational change that leads to the effective use of a diverse workforce (e.g. Gilbert, Stead and Ivancevich, ; Kreitz, ). This advocacy is in line with the change management literature for the importance of top‐level commitment in the successful implementation of change (Kotter, ).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Journal Editors and Editorial Boards: Who Are the Trailblazers in Increasing Editorial Board Gender Equality?

Metz

Harzing

Zyphur

2015

British J of Management

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Female academics continue to be under-represented on the editorial boards of many, but not all, management journals. This variability is intriguing, because it is reasonable to assume that the size of the pool of female faculty available and willing to serve on editorial boards is similar for all management journals. This paper therefore focuses on the characteristics of the journal editors to explain this variability; journal editors or editorsin-chief are the most influential people in the selection of editorial board members. The authors draw on social identity and homosocial reproduction theories, and on the gender and careers literature to examine the relationship between an editor's academic performance, professional age and gender, and editorial board gender equality. Longitudinal data are collected at five points in time, using five-year intervals, from 52 management journals. To account for the nested structure of the data, a three-level multilevel model was estimated. Overall, it is found that the prospects of board membership improve for women when editors are high-performing, professionally young or female. The authors discuss these findings and their implications for management journals with low, stagnant or declining representation of women in their boards.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Journal Editors and Editorial Boards: Who Are the Trailblazers in Increasing Editorial Board Gender Equality?

Metz

Harzing

Zyphur

2015

British J of Management

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“…Organizational diversity can bring positive benefits to institutions from many perspectives. Based on the results of empirical studies and the review of monographs, diversity benefits in organizations can be divided into two areas, the business sector and higher education (Aguirre, & Martinez, 2007;Cunningham, 2009;Chun, & Evans, 2009;Kreitz, 2007;Mannix, & Neale, 2005;Williams, & O'Reilly, 1998).…”

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“…Through proper strategies and management, organizational diversity creates positive benefits to institutions, directly or indirectly. In the business sector, if a company culture supports inclusiveness, both Kreitz (2007) and Williams and O'Reilly (1998) noted that groups of diverse cultural backgrounds produce positive impact on group process and performance. Also, workforce diversity is strongly linked to creativity and problem-solving when there is "an increase in the variety of perspectives and approaches brought to a problem and to opportunities for knowledge sharing" (Mannix, & Neale, 2005, p 31).…”

Section: Benefits To Organizational Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

An assessment of diversity competence among college seniors: An exploratory study

Chiang¹

2018

AIP Conference Proceedings

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“…This is perhaps why workplace diversity management is defined as a "comprehensive managerial process for developing an environment that works for all employees" (Thomas, 1992, p. 10). For successful management of diversity, HRM must be skilful in leadership, organizational development and change management, with excellent communication skills (Kreitz, 2008).…”

Section: Management Of Workforce Diversitymentioning

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Integrated Approach to Workplace Diversity through Human Resource Management

Babalola¹

2013

JSDS

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Todayâ€™s organisations are facing challenges of equity control, market size, and workplace diversity despite increase in profitability due to globalisation and technological advancements. This called for efficient utilization of human resource management (HRM) as its focus is on people management with the strategic proactive approach to workplace diversity. The paper calls for improve role of HRM and organisational management in creating conducive work environment, accurate and expansion of selection criteria for workplace diversity that include stable attributes such as emotional intelligence and dispositional factors such as task and people oriented and being culturally flexible. It conclude by advocating for HRM integrative approach to diversity as it synthesizes the literature and proposes key areas needed to management diversity.

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Best Practices for Managing Organizational Diversity

Cited by 138 publications

References 50 publications

Of Journal Editors and Editorial Boards: Who Are the Trailblazers in Increasing Editorial Board Gender Equality?

Of Journal Editors and Editorial Boards: Who Are the Trailblazers in Increasing Editorial Board Gender Equality?

An assessment of diversity competence among college seniors: An exploratory study

Integrated Approach to Workplace Diversity through Human Resource Management

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