The Discourse of Diversity: From Biology to Management
追溯劳动力多样性话语的起源至自然科学与哲学，分析生物多样性和人类基因组多样性项目，揭示当代多样性话语的本质主义假设及其对组织行为学教科书概念化的影响，并提出替代性差异概念。
By tracing the origins of workforce diversity discourse to the domain of natural science and philosophy, and analyzing two other contemporary diversity discourses, biodiversity and the Human Genome Diversity Project, this paper reveals the essentialist assumptions upon which contemporary diversity discourse is based. It demonstrates how these essentialist assumptions structure the conceptualizations of workforce diversity presented in a sample of recently published organizational behavior textbooks. The organizational consequences of the adoption of this essentialized conceptualization of diversity are explored, and a suggestion for an alternative conceptualization of difference is offered.