TY  - JOUR
AB  - Persistent patterns of employment segregation have long been
challenged through what is here called “the discourse of
equity”. Associated equity legislation and equal employment
policies have not succeeded in changing these patterns. “The
management of diversity”, a newly‐developing discourse, is claimed
by its proponents to encapsulate traditional equity issues in a more
managerially compelling format. Additionally, through this new
discourse, progressively addresses issues associated with managing
diverse people in a global context. Argues that, in the context of
globalizing capitalism, a new homogeneity with different patterns of
exclusion is being achieved. The pragmatic focus on “the
management of diversity” may diffuse the emancipatory imperative
implicit in “the discourse of equity”. Urges an examination
of the extent to which traditional equity concerns have been co‐opted to
divert attention from new forms of systemic employment segregation.
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
SN  - 0953-4814
DO  - 10.1108/09534819510096451
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819510096451
AU  - Humphries Maria
AU  - Grice Shayne
PY  - 1995
Y1  - 1995/01/01
TI  - Equal employment opportunity and the management of diversity: A
global discourse of assimilation?
T2  - Journal of Organizational Change Management
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 17
EP  - 32
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -