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Diversity Management

Theory in Action

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Systems practice has motored on relentlessly in the last 15 to 20 years, making its major tracks and dust storms in methodology practice while, increasingly, undertaking self-critique of those tracks and dust storms using social theory. This critique has blown away some of the fallout of methodology practice and mapped the tracks onto theory about society and organization. Cross-referencing promises to yield insights for both social theory and systems methodology practice.

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    Robert L. Flood & Norma R. A. Romm

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Flood, R.L., Romm, N.R.A. (1996). Diversity Management. In: Flood, R.L., Romm, N.R.A. (eds) Critical Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34651-9_5

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