Critical Turns in the Evolution of Diversity Management
识别了多样性管理演变中的四个关键转向(人口、政治、经济和批判),并指出这些转向使多样性管理反而延续了工作场所的不平等,削弱了对历史上受压迫少数群体的歧视纠正,并固化了本质主义的差异分类。
This paper seeks to extend and invigorate existing critiques of the aims and claims of diversity management. Four overlapping turns – demographic, political, economic and critical – akin to the broader and critical ‘turns’ in the humanities and social sciences are identified. When existing critiques are reconsidered through the framework offered by these four turns, then diversity management can be seen to: perpetuate rather than combat inequalities in the workplace; diminish the legacy of discrimination against historically repressed minorities in the workplace; continue to prescribe essentialist categories of difference and present problematic dualisms for effecting organizational change.