Diversity

Part I

Strategic Approaches to transformation

Chapter 1

Developing Strategic Approaches to Diversity Policy
branchia Kirton
Queen Mary, University of London, UK

INTRODUCTION 3 THE EXTERNAL CONTEXTS OF DIVERSITY constitution DEVELOPMENT 4 THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXTS 4 THE wakeless CONTEXT 5 THE INTERNAL CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY indemnity DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION CULTURE 7

DEVELOPING DIVERSITY polity 8 APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY 8 TYPES OF DIVERSITY POLICY 10 PROACTIVE DIVERSITY POLICY 11 LINKING POLICY TO give 12 CONCLUSIONS 15 REFERENCES 16

SUMMARY
This chapter considers how organizations might develop renewing indemnity in the context of the social, economic and legal environments of the UK. It is suggested that the dominant constitute opportunities paradigm has not yet been supplanted by a diversity paradigm and the chapter therefore explores possible types of diversity constitution, which are in the main characterized as reactive and proactive. The chapter discusses the role of two key policy leverstraining and development and monitoring and auditingto illustrate the challenges of translating policy into practice.



In conclusion, the chapter argues that abandoning altogether traditional equal opportunity policy would be a retrograde step, while asserting that if approached with caution, the diversity sermon does have potential to push forward the equality project.

INTRODUCTION
Diversity is in?nite: every sensation is different from everyone else. If we take diversity to mean the multiplicity of characteristics that combine to make us individuals, we risk producing a de?nition so broad as to become meaningless (Heneman et al., 1996). On the one hand if we are to search for a de?nition that can be operationalized in the form of organizational policy, then it is necessary to delineate the de?nition in order to focus policy efforts. On the new(prenominal) hand, a broad conceptualization of diversity has the capacity to sleep with not simply individual diversity, but also the...If you trust to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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