Reconciling Competing Discourses of Diversity? The UK Non-Profit Sector Between Social Justice and the Business Case
研究英国非营利组织如何调和多元化管理中的社会正义与商业逻辑矛盾，发现管理者将功利主义重新嵌入社会正义承诺中，但实践中仍面临困境。
The tension between the business case and social justice approaches forms a crucial point of debate in the diversity and equality field. However, their presentation as essentially oppositional is brought into question when the ‘business’ of the organization itself concerns social justice. This article draws on research in UK voluntary (non-profit) organizations to reveal the ambiguities and variations found in local constructions of equality and diversity. Managers and diversity specialists reconciled moral and business rationales through re-inscribing utilitarian arguments within an organizational commitment to social justice; however, significant dilemmas associated with doing diversity remained. The article argues for a shift in the research agenda away from competing ‘cases’ and towards investigating how the challenges that diversity presents can be worked through in day-to-day organizational practice.