Equality, Diversity and Opportunity Management

Tony Morden is an established writer of business books. During a long and successful career as a business school academic and Principal Lecturer he also published widely in scholarly and practitioner journals. His other work experience included manufacturing, marketing, and human resource management. He was a VSO school teacher in Central Africa. He has worked with highly diverse groups of students and clients and has significant experience of teaching on an in-company basis. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Tony Morden’s Principles of Management and Principles of Strategic Management are published by Ashgate. Principles of Management has been translated into Chinese and Arabic. His Short Guide to Equality Risk is published by Gower in the highly influential Short Guides to Business Risk series. Tony Morden is classified as disabled within the meaning of the UK Disability Discrimination and Equality Acts. He has in writing this book applied specialised knowledge and insights accumulated in the process of successfully defending his own rights in employment.

Part I Introduction: Introduction and book plan; Equality realities - some good, some not so good, some bad, and some ugly. Part II Inter-Related EDOD Principles: Concepts, applications and drivers of the equality, diversity, opportunity, and anti-discrimination agenda; Protected diversity categories; National culture and cross-cultural variables; Ethical and philosophical underpinnings of the equality, diversity, opportunity, and anti-discrimination agenda; Some alternative EDOD interpretations; Ethnocentric, multicultural, or unicultural?; Discrimination and discrimination risk. Part III Social Class, Social Mobility, and Opportunity: Social class diversity and mobility; Social class and the superstar culture; Opportunity; Opportunity, access, social mobility, education, and social networks. Part IV EDOD Dilemmas: Single interest and pressure groups, communication, the media, politicisation, and the exploitation of the EDOD agenda; Language, symbols, signals and behaviours: some dilemmas of EDOD interpretation: EDOD management dilemmas; Resolving EDOD dilemmas. Part V EDOD Strategy and Management: Governance, strategy, leadership, management, and the delivery of the EDOD agenda; EDOD performance management; EDOD risk and crisis management; Change management and the EDOD agenda; Postscript; Workshop: Equality, diversity and opportunity management case study; Bibliography; Index.