International handbook on diversity management at work : country perspectives on diversity and equal treatment / edited by Alain Klarsfeld.

Managing and developing diversity is on the political and business agenda in many countries; therefore diversity management has become an area of knowledge and practice in its own right. Yet all too often it is referred to as a unifying concept, as if it were to be interpreted uniformly across all c...

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Other Authors: Klarsfeld, Alain.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, Glos, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Managing gender diversity in Pakistan and Turkey: a historical review / Beliz Dereli
  • 2. Austrian perspectives on diversity management and equal treatment: regulations, debates, practices and trends / Roswitha Hofmann
  • 3. Diversity management in Belgium / Patrizia Zanoni
  • 4. Employment equity and workplace diversity in Canada / Eddy S.W. Ng
  • 5. Equality and diversity in the French context / Jacqueline Laufer
  • 6. Social inequality, diversity and equal treatment at work: the German case / Renate Ortlieb Barbara Sieben
  • 7. Affirmative action in India: caste-based reservations / Abhoy K. Ojha.
  • 8. The development of diversity management in the Italian context: a slow process / Barbara Poggio
  • 9. Laws, policies and practices of diversity management in the Netherlands / Ashley Terlouw
  • 10. Singapore: equality, harmony and fair employment / Angeline Lim
  • 11. Employment equity and diversity management in South Africa / Stella M. Nkomo
  • 12. A possible brain: workplace diversity and equal treatment in Sweden / Adiam Tedros
  • 13. Diversity made in Switzerland: traditional and new plurality meets the business case / Brigitle Liebig
  • 14. Discourses and practices of diversity management in the UK / Ahu Tath
  • 15. Managing diversity in the USA: the evolution of inclusion in the workplace / Cheryl Wyrick.