Cultural competency has been proposed as an organizational strategy to address racial/ethnic disparities in the healthcare system; disparities are a long-standing policy challenge whose relevance is only increasing with the increasing population diversity of the US and across the world. Using an...

Purpose – To test the economic theory that economies with greater stability and diversity are also economies that are more insulated from economic shocks. Design/methodology/approach – Uses persistence profiles derived from the cointegrated systems of two regional economies within the state...

In recent years, diversity management has evolved from a perspective on human resources management toward a conception of strategic management. This implies the need to adapt a central management function, strategic controlling, in order to render the conception of diversity management in...

This paper argues the case for increasing the participation of women in multidisciplinary action teams as a means for making better use of gender diversity. We argue that conventional diversity management practices involve a narrow approach towards increasing women’s participation in...

Diversity management has been extensively studied in domestic settings. However, domestic diversity management research is inadequate for understanding diversity management concerns of global firms at the level of their strategic decision-making and cross-national coordination activities. The...

Managing multiculturalism is indeed a challenge both at the, governance as well as managerial levels. Organisations are increasingly realising vast diversity within the global market and devising strategies to make the most out of it. Why is multiculturalism being adopted as a leading corporate...

This paper discusses various theoretical approaches to diversity management, analysing their similarities and differences. I start with a review of certain previously presented classifications, and then proceed to describing the different approaches in more detail. In this paper, I propose that...

Att leda olikheter - den amerikanska termen management diversity har blivit en nödvändighet för svenska organisationer. Bakgrunden kan sökas dels i en ökad heterogenitet hos svensk arbetsmarknad, dels i näringslivets internationalisering. Förutom nödvändigheten att ändra...