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Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike. This book explores how diversity in organizations is, and can be researched, providing readers with insights into the potential research designs for studies in contemporary organizations.

This includes paying attention to methods but also to the role of the researcher and research bodies in the field, their potential as activists as well as to the theoretical question of standpoints in researching organizational diversity. Chapters also consider the diversity of research participants, inclusive research, and intersectionality. All contributors are experts in diversity research, and in their contributions, they reflect upon the appropriate methods for the specific type of diversity research they conduct, noting strengths and weaknesses and illustrating their arguments with practical examples from their work.　

This handbook will be of great value to academics, students, researchers, practitioners, and professionals with an interest in broadening their understanding of how to research organizational diversity in contemporary organizations or seeking to develop their awareness of diversity when researching management and organization, more generally.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Researching Organizational Diversity: Opportunities and Challenges

PART I: Diverse bodies and the research context

Colonialism as Context in Diversity Research

Diversity Beyond Whiteness: The Possibilities for Anti-Racist Diversity Research

White Bodies in Postcolonial Ethnographic Research

Men Researching Women’s Experiences of Sexism and Discrimination: An Impossible Position?

Weird Ways of Normalizing: Queering Diversity Research through Norm Critique

PART II: Inclusive research

Does Empirical Research on Work and Employment Consider the Needs of Disabled Participants? An Empirical Investigation

Overlooked or Undercooked? Critical Review & Recommendations for Experimental Methods in Diversity Research

Diversity as Heterogeneity and Inequality: The Case of Nationality

Claiming a Livable Academic Life as Critical Diversity Scholars: A Butlerian Reflection on our Collective Performativity

Taking Liberties: Emancipating Knowledge for Equality

PART III: Doing field work

Shadowing as a Liminal Space: A Relational View

Feminist Organizational Ethnography: When the Epistemological Is Political

Queering LGBT-Friendliness: Three Possibilities (and Problems) In a Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Diversity

Videography: A Study of Diversity Management Taken to the Streets

PART IV: From data to analysis

Researching Business Celebrity Autobiographies: Mapping a New Site for Diversity Research.

Studying Diversity at Work from a Class Perspective: An Inductive and Supra-Categorical Approach

Studying Diversity with Social Network Analysis

Causal Analysis in Qualitative Inquiry to Map Marginalization and Inclusion

Conclusion

Doing Diversity Research – What Now?

The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods

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