Pushkala Prasad & Albert J Mills 
Managing the Organizational Melting Pot 
Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity

Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such key as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks, that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity. The volume also employs a variety of theoretical perspectives, including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, the authors examine a multitude of organizational situations in which the complications of diversity surface-many of which cross race, gender, ethnic and other socially constructed boundaries. Managing the Organizational Melting Pot draws examples not only from the United States , but also looks at situations from Canada, Britain, and the Middle East. Students, scholars, and managers who want to prepare themselves to deal with the challenges presented by a multicultural workforce will find this beneficial reading. In addition, researchers interested in conducting research in diversity management will find this an up-to-date, thought-provoking resource.

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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

From Showcase to Shadow — Pushkala Prasad and Albert J Mills

Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity

PART TWO: THEORIZING THE DILEMMAS OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY

(In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference — J Michael Cavanagh

The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference — Collette Oseen

Re-Thinking the Difference in the Construction of the Non-Hierarchical Workplace

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being — Roy Jacques

Reflections of a Pale, Stale, Male

Class Discipline — Richard Marsden

IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce

The Protestant Ethic and Myths of the Frontier — Pushkala Prasad

Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring and Workplace Diversity

Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations — Michael B Elmes and Debra L Connelley

PART THREE: DILEMMAS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

Dueling Discourses — Albert J Mills

Desexualization versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-60

Women in the Academy — Pat Bradshaw and David Wicks

Cycles of Resistance and Compliance

`We Have To Make a Management Decision′ — Mark Maier


Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity

When Organizations Do Harm — Paula Caproni and Joycelyn Finley

Two Cautionary Tales

The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other — Anshuman Prasad

A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil

Triple Jeopardy — E Joy Mighty

Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force

How International Is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity — Diana J Wong-Ming Ji and Ali Husain Mir

PART FIVE: CONCLUSION

Issues in the Management of Diversity — Anshu Prasad and Michael B Elmes