Managing Diversity in Organizations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Beham, Barbara (Editor), Straub, Caroline (Editor), Schwalbach, Joachim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag : Imprint: Gabler Verlag, 2012.
• Series: ZfB-Special Issues
• Subjects: Business.; Organization.; Planning.; Business and Management.

Diversity management has recently attracted a lot of attention in both academia and practice. Globalization, migration, demographic changes, low fertility rates, a scarce pool of qualified labor, and women entering the workforce in large scales have led to an increasingly heterogeneous workforce in...

Table of Contents:

• Diversity Research: What Do We Currently Know About How To Manage Diverse Organizational Units?
• Getting Tuned in to Those Who Are Different: The Role of Empathy as Mediator between Diversity and Performance
• Managing Demographic Change and Diversity in Organizations: How Feedback from Coworkers Moderates the Relationship between Age and Innovative Work Behavior
• Gender and nationality pay gaps in light of organisational theories: A large-scale analysis within German establishments
• Women on German Management Boards: How Ownership Structure affects Management Board Diversity.