Diversity Management: Revealing the Need for a Context-specific Approach
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2020
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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This chapter focuses on the diversity management concept which emerged in the United States at the end of the 1980s. As a strategic tool for effective use of the diverse workforce, the concept started to diffuse globally in recent years. However, there are concerns about the transferability of diversity management as a readymade practice. From this point of view, this chapter questions the universality of diversity management by providing evidence from the Turkish context. Findings reveal that due to cross-national differences and the local sensitivities, diversity management is subject to customization in the different contexts. In a sense, the local context reconstructs the content of the practice. On this basis, the chapter demonstrates the need for a context-specific diversity management approach. © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Contextualization, Diffusion, Diversity, Diversity management, Human resources practices, Institutional context, Institutional differences, Turkish context
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Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management
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