Personnel Review: Volume 29 Issue 3

Inclusion, exclusion and ambiguity – The role of organisational culture

Elisabeth Wilson

Describes case studies of three organisations, exploring the role of organisational culture as a framework for the inclusion and exclusion of actual and potential organisational…

Employee involvement: opening the diversity Pandora’s Box?

Gillian Shapiro

Recent studies have found that initiatives relying on the participation and development of employees, such as TQM, can struggle if different kinds of employees are not involved…

Climate for diversity and its effects on career and organisational attitudes and perceptions

Deborah Hicks‐Clarke, Paul Iles

The article presents a discussion of issues of human resource diversity and diversity climates in organisations and develops a conceptual model of a “positive climate for…

The relationship among reported disclosure of sexual orientation, anti‐discrimination policies, top management support and work attitudes of gay and lesbian employees

Nancy E. Day, Patricia Schoenrade

There is currently very little research to support the popularly held claim that “closeted” homosexual workers will have a less positive work‐related attitude and no empirical…

“Managing diversity” meets Aotearoa/New Zealand

Deborah Jones, Judith Pringle, Deborah Shepherd

Argues that the discourse of “managing diversity”, emerging from the US management literature, cannot be simply mapped on to organisations in other cultural contexts. It uses the…

Equal opportunities officers and managing equality changes

Elizabeth Lawrence

Reports research findings from a study of equal opportunities officers. Explores different definitions and understandings of equal opportunities held by equal opportunities…

Disability and diversity – a difference too far?

Carol Woodhams, Ardha Danieli

It is currently fashionable to herald “managing diversity” as an approach which signals a new dawn for equal opportunities. Within the management of diversity is a new, more…

Managing work‐family diversity for parents of disabled children – Beyond policy to practice and partnership

Suzan Lewis, Carolyn Kagan, Patricia Heaton

An area of diversity currently receiving attention is the large proportion of the workforce with commitments to care for a family. Many organisations have introduced “family…