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    Managing diversity or diversifying management?

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    Authors
    Schwabenland, Christina
    Tomlinson, Frances
    Issue Date
    2008
    Subjects
    equal opportunities
    organizational analysis
    voluntary organizations
    
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    Abstract
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on postcolonial theorising on hybridity as a heuristic to explore current tensions described by managers in voluntary organisations engaging with diversity issues. Voluntary organisations are particularly valued for their innovative services developed in response to the needs of their constituents. However, managers describe increasing tension between their organisation's mission on behalf of marginalised and excluded groups and the increasing expectation that these organisations act as contractors to the state and as providers of professionally managed services. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on interviews with a range of key informants, including chief executives, specialist diversity managers and project workers, working in UK-based voluntary organisations; the interviews explored diversity issues in a broad sense including campaigning and advocacy work as well as service provision. Findings – Evidence was revealed of innovative ways of working that respond to the needs of particular communities and constituencies – thereby supporting the rationale behind the “business case” for diversity. Also found was evidence of pressures from regulators and funders to standardise that make such innovation less likely; involving processes of undermining the efforts of organisations to manage and organise themselves independently, and of essentialising – fixing the subjects of diversity in an identity of difference and inferiority. The findings suggest that “managing diversity” is inherently problematic. Originality/value – There is little academic research that applies a critical perspective to voluntary organisations and less using postcolonial theory as a heuristic. However, voluntary organisations are central to both national and international anti-poverty initiatives and programmes designed to facilitate community renewal.
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    Schwabenland,C. & Tomlinson,F.(2008) 'Managing diversity or diversifying management?', Critical Perspectives on International Business, 4(2/3), pp.320 - 333
    Journal
    Critical Perspectives on International Business
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294626
    DOI
    10.1108/17422040810870033
    Additional Links
    http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17422040810870033
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1742-2043
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1108/17422040810870033
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