Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 29 Issue 5

Diversity management beyond the business case

Inge Bleijenbergh, Pascale Peters, Erik Poutsma

This paper aims to introduce the theme of the special issue – diversity management beyond the business case. It addresses two main questions: first, how increased diversification…

Aligning talent management with approaches to equality and diversity: Challenges for UK public sector managers

Lynette Harrisr, Carley Foster

The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of talent management interventions in UK public sector organisations.

Taming diversity: an exploratory study on the travel of a management fashion

Leonie Heres, Yvonne Benschop

Originating from the USA in the early 1990s, diversity management has been “imported” to Europe to become a fashionable practice in many business organizations. The aim of this…

How can we explain mixed effects of diversity on team performance? A review with emphasis on context

Hartmut Haas

The purpose of this paper is to address the still unresolved issue of explaining the mixed diversity effects on team performance found in empirical research. A special focus is on…

Managing the effects of diversity on social capital

Macarena López‐Fernández, Gonzalo Sánchez‐Gardey

The purpose of this paper is to link previous research on diversity, social capital and strategic human resource management (SHRM), and propose a model to explain how an SHRM…

May I work from home? Views of the employment relationship reflected in line managers' telework attitudes in six financial‐sector organizations

Pascale Peters, Laura den Dulk, Judith de Ruijter

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to two related contemporary debates on the changing views of the employment relation and on the adoption of telework as a new work…

Towards a new culture of work‐place inclusiveness: the Dutch case

Pascale Peters, Inge Bleijenbergh, Frederik Poutsma

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the work of the Dutch government's “Taskforce Part‐time Plus” set up to stimulate longer working hours for particularly Dutch…

Integrating people with disability into the workforce: the case of a retail chain

Ilona Buc˘i¯unien˙e, R¯uta Kazlauskait˙e

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into diversity management practices in the Baltic states and present experience of HRM practitioners' in initiating the…

International Handbook on Diversity Management at Work; Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment

Peter J. Sloane