This book provides a new model of workplace equality based on capabilities theory. This approach identifies actions which organizations can take to evaluate and improve the ways in which they support equality for all their members and also helps ensure that individuals feel they are being treated fairly. Moving on from equal opportunities and diversity management approaches, this innovative book offers a new answer to ?what is equality? and provides new insights into how equality in the workplace can be pursued and achieved.
Covering both theoretical debates and practical applications, the contributors use examples from organizations such as Honda, BP, the UK Police Service, the Australian Government, RTZ and Coca-Cola to demonstrate real-world practices. To reflect the broad nature of current businesses, the book covers both public and private organizations and discusses the international implications of workplace equality for multinational corporations both globally and locally.
Introduction and Overview Nelarine Cornelius.
The Contributors.
PART I: FOUNDATION THEORY AND CONCEPTS.
1. From Equal Opportunities to Managing Diversity to Capabilities: A New Theory of Workplace Equality? Suzanne Gagnon and Nelarine Cornelius.
2. Evaluating Organisational Readiness for Change Nigel Bassett-Jones.
3. Multi-Dimensional Information and Knowledge Bases for Equality and Diversity Learning and Action Nelarine Cornelius.
PART II: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ?CAPABILITIES EQUALITY FOR APPLICATION.
4. Managing People - Equality, Diversity and Human Resource Management Issues for Line Managers Larraine Gooch and Alan Blackburn.
5. Dominant Organisational Characteristics and their Influence on Equality and Diversity Action: The Illustration of ?Professionalism Nelarine Cornelius.
6. Managing Equality and Diversity in a Global Context Clive Wildish and Nelarine Cornelius. PART III: PRACTITIONERS AND PRACTICE.
7. Whole Organisation Equality and Diversity Intervention Strategies in Practice Ade Ajadi. Case Studies: 1. Stakeholder Perspectives: A Personal Account of an Equality and Diversity Practitioners Intervention Experiences Shaun Todd.
2. Building on a Vision: ?Inclusive Meritocracy in a Major Multinational Energy Company Suzanne Gagnon with Nelarine Cornelius.
3. Wearing Warm Clothes in Winter: A Pragmatic Process Approach to Promoting Cultural Diversity in Global Succession Planning James H. Ward and Diana Winstanley.
Final Comments Nelarine Cornelius and Nigel Bassett-Jones.
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