Research Handbook of International and Comparative Perspectives on Diversity Management

This Research Handbook offers, for the first time, a comparative approach to current diversity management concerns facing nations. Spanning 19 countries and across Africa, it covers age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, national origin and the intersection of various dimensions of diversity. The multicultural and multi-country teams of contributors, leading scholars in their own countries, examine how the various actors react, adopt and manage the different dimensions of diversity, from a multitude of approaches, from national to sectoral and from tribes to trade unions, but always with a comparative, multi-country perspective.This book represents the efforts of multicultural and multi-country teams of contributors who are prominent diversity scholars in their respective countries. Offering comparative approaches to diversity management and comparative public policy on multiculturalism, it explores comparisons at both the macro-environmental and meso-organizational levels. Topics covered include pan-African tribal diversity management, diversity in the South Pacific, youth labour market exclusion and LGBTQ rights in selected countries. This comprehensive review of diversity management will appeal to both academics and graduate students as well as to public policy-makers, industry practitioners, top leadership, middle managers and HR managers.

Edited by Alain Klarsfeld, Professor, Toulouse Business School, University of Toulouse, France, Eddy S. Ng, Professor and F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business, Dalhousie University, Canada, Lize A.E. Booysen, Professor, Graduate School of Leadership and Change, Antioch University, US and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Liza Castro Christiansen, Senior Lecturer, Business Academy Aarhus, Denmark and Visiting Academic Fellow, Henley Business School, UK and Bard Kuvaas, Professor, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway