Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work: A Research Companion

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Equality, diversity and inclusion atwork: yesterday, today and tomorrow......Page 12
PART I Scholars, scholarship and inequality......Page 26
1. Effects of the experience of inequality, exclusion and discrimination on scholarship......Page 28
2. Subtle mechanisms: reproducing gender inequity in academia......Page 38
3. Cultural conflicts and commonalities: researching work–life balance for women university staff in the UK and Japan......Page 52
4. The unwanted body of man or why is it so difficult for women to make it in academe? A feminist psychoanalytic approach......Page 68
PART II Reframing equality, diversity and inclusion......Page 84
5. Positioning workplace diversity: critical aspects for theory......Page 86
6. Reflections on researching inequalities and intersectionality......Page 99
7. Contextualising diversity management......Page 112
8. Exclusion, inclusion and women entrepreneurs......Page 123
9. Managing diverse social systems:diversity meets social systems theory – deconstructing binary and unfolding paradoxes......Page 131
10. The value of seeing gender as a ‘doing’......Page 147
PART III Sociology of equality, diversity and inclusion......Page 158
11. ‘Gender competence’: gender mainstreaming, managing diversity and the professionalisation of gender politics in Germany......Page 160
12. Queering the principles: a queer/intersectional reading of Frederick W. Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management......Page 170
13. Critical sensemaking and workplace inequities......Page 182
14. Feminist psychosocial approaches to relationality, recognition and denial......Page 190
PART IV Psychology of equality, diversity and inclusion......Page 204
15. Challenging the status quo: diversity, employee voice and proactive behaviour......Page 206
16. Reactions to discrimination: exclusive identity of foreign workers in South Africa......Page 227
17. Sex differences in coping with work–home interference......Page 240
18. Affirmative action attitudes: more complex than we know......Page 256
19. Headcounts and equal opportunity: people accounting in the workplace......Page 265
20. Trade union perspectives on diversity management......Page 276
21. Encounters between gender and labour politics: towards an inclusive trade union democracy......Page 283
PART VI Equality and diversity interventions and change......Page 298
22. Inclusion and diversity as an intercultural task......Page 300
23. Partners in policy: academic–practitioner collaboration for equity in education and skills training......Page 312
24. Putting words in our mouths: diversity training as heteroglossic organisational spaces......Page 319
25. Managing diversity: the virtue of coercion......Page 333
26. Supporting the career development of managerial women: recent evidence......Page 343
27. Internal compensation discrimination: empirical and theoretical developments......Page 355
PART VII Men, masculinities, equality and diversity......Page 368
28. Gender equality: not for women only......Page 370
29. Men, diversity at work and diversity management......Page 383
30. Men, gender equality and gender equality policy......Page 394
31. ‘Talking sports’: sports and the construction of hegemonic masculinities at work......Page 410
Index......Page 424