Management, Diversity, Equal Opportunity, and Social Cohesion in France: The Republic Resistant to Differences^☆

Abstract

This chapter focuses on diversity issues in France. It shows how these issues came historically in the French context and how the main tensions generated, notably the equality-diversity and universality-diversity tensions, are not understandable without a knowledge of the French Republicanism which gives to the foundations of the French social fabric its peculiarities.

Citation

Chanlat, J.-F. (2017), "Management, Diversity, Equal Opportunity, and Social Cohesion in France: The Republic Resistant to Differences^☆", Management and Diversity (International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 3), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 63-89. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-233320160000003004

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