Diversity and Identity in the Workplace (eBook)

Florence Villesèche is Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She is a Marie Curie Fellow and received an Emerald/EFMD Highly Commended Award for outstanding doctoral research. Florence has published articles about diversity, identity and networks in several journals, including Human Relations, European Management Review, Personnel Review, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Sara Louise Muhr is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Her research revolves around critical perspectives on managerial identity, diversity and HRM, and has appeared in journals such as Organization Studies, Organization, Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Culture and Organization and Scandinavian Journal of Management. Lotte Holck is a post-doctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. She researches workplace diversity, inequality and power. Her work appears in Organization, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Personnel Review, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Contents 5
Chapter 1: Introduction: From Diversity to Identity and Back 6
Tentative Definitions and Reflections 7
Outline of Aims and Contents 10
References 12
Chapter 2: Diversity Management: Invisible Identities 14
Introduction 14
Diversities and Identities 15
From Social Justice to the Business Case: Locating Identities 17
Managed Diversity and Managing the Self 23
Negotiating Diverse Identities Between Structure and Agency 25
From Imposition to Emergence 27
References 28
Chapter 3: Categorizing Diversity and Managing Identities 33
Introduction 33
Social Identity and Self-categorization Theory 34
Comparative and Normative Fit of Social Identity 35
Social Identity, Groups and Diversity 36
Social Identity and Diversity Management 39
Limits of Category-Based Diversity Research and Management 40
Limitations of SIT for Diversity Management 43
References 44
Chapter 4: Reclaiming Identity: The Critical Diversity Project 49
Introduction 49
Critical Emancipatory Identity Work 50
The Critical Diversity Literature and Power 52
Re-politicizing Identities in Search of Social Justice 55
Criticizing the Critics 56
Moving Critique to the Field 57
Concluding Comments 60
References 61
Chapter 5: Post-identities: The Transgression of Diversity Categories 68
Introduction 68
Fragmented, Fluid and Intersecting Identities 69
Transgressive Identities and Queer Theory 74
Performativity 77
Conclusion and Critiques 79
References 80
Chapter 6: From Theory to Practice 85
Introduction 85
Social Identities in and around Organizations 86
Extending the Critical Voice 90
Performing Transgression and Achieving Long-Term Change 95
Reflections and Actions Across Perspectives: Towards a Multi-perspective Approach 97
References 101
Epilogue 105
Index 107