ABSTRACT

Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike. This book explores how diversity in organizations is, and can be researched, providing readers with insights into the potential research designs for studies in contemporary organizations.

This includes paying attention to methods but also to the role of the researcher and research bodies in the field, their potential as activists as well as to the theoretical question of standpoints in researching organizational diversity. Chapters also consider the diversity of research participants, inclusive research, and intersectionality. All contributors are experts in diversity research, and in their contributions, they reflect upon the appropriate methods for the specific type of diversity research they conduct, noting strengths and weaknesses and illustrating their arguments with practical examples from their work. 

This handbook will be of great value to academics, students, researchers, practitioners, and professionals with an interest in broadening their understanding of how to research organizational diversity in contemporary organizations or seeking to develop their awareness of diversity when researching management and organization, more generally.

chapter 1|10 pages

Researching Organizational Diversity

Opportunities and Challenges

part I|62 pages

Diverse Bodies and the Research Context

chapter 3|12 pages

Diversity Beyond Whiteness

The Possibilities for Anti-​​Racist Diversity Research

chapter 6|14 pages

Weird Ways of Normalizing

Queering Diversity Research through Norm Critique

part II|74 pages

Inclusive Research

chapter 8|16 pages

Overlooked or Undercooked?

Critical Review and Recommendations for Experimental Methods in Diversity Research

chapter 9|15 pages

Diversity as Heterogeneity and Inequality

The Case of Nationality

chapter 11|11 pages

Taking Liberties

Emancipating Knowledge for Equality

part III|54 pages

Doing Field Work

chapter 12|13 pages

Shadowing as a Liminal Space

A Relational View 1 , 2

chapter 13|14 pages

Feminist Organizational Ethnography

When the Epistemological Is Political

chapter 14|13 pages

Queering LGBT-Friendliness

Three Possibilities (and Problems) in a Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Diversity

chapter 15|12 pages

Videography

A Study of Diversity Management Taken to the Streets

part IV|54 pages

From Data to Analysis

part |5 pages

Conclusion