Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the PDW on Is the Organizational 'Inclusion Turn' an Exclusive Endeavor? – Potential Trajectories of Research on Friday, Aug 9 2019 from 4:15pm to 6:15pm at Boston Park Plaza in Statler.
Sponsors: Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO), Critical Management Studies (CMS), Organizational Behavior (OB)
Over the last decade organizational inclusion has become an increasingly prominent concept of research at the intersection of diversity studies and management & organization studies. Scholars position organizational inclusion approaches with the objective of creating an "inclusive organization" as superior to "old- fashioned" diversity management, because they are assumed to be a key driver for actually reaping diversity's potential benefits. At the same time, scholars call for a critical examination of this "inclusion turn" that questions the foundations and applications of the organizational inclusion concepts with respect to their implicit biases towards particular diversity dimensions (e.g., gender, ethnicity/race) or certain forms of organizations (e.g., mainly based in the white collar sector). Against this background, the PDW aims to take stock of the "actual inclusivity" of the core concepts of current inclusion research, but also at discussing more fundamental questions such as whether inclusion represents a solely positive endeavor or whether it is – simultaneously and necessarily – coupled to forms of exclusion. The PDW will feature presentations by key scholars in the field, round tables and a plenary discussion in order to develop future research directions in the field of organizational inclusion research.
Organizer: Laura Dobusch, Radboud U., Netherlands
Organizer: Marieke Van Den Brink, Radboud U. Nijmegen
Organizer: Beth G Chung, San Diego State U.
Presenter: Yvonne Benschop, Radboud U. Nijmegen
Presenter: Martin N. Davidson, U. of Virginia
Presenter: Bernardo M. Ferdman, Ferdman Consulting
Presenter: Courtney Lynn McCluney, U. of Virginia Darden School of Business
Discussant: Alison Pullen, Macquarie U.
https://my.aom.org/program2019/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=16552
Kind regards,
Laura Dobusch
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Dr. Laura Dobusch | Assistant Professor Gender & Diversity | Radboud Social Cultural Research | Radboud University | SP A 3.15 | PO Box 9104, 6500HE Nijmegen, Netherlands | +31 24 361 23 34 | www.ru.nl/genderstudies
Latest Publications:
Dobusch, L. (2019). Body-Sensitive Diversity Research Between Enablement and Disablement. In Fotaki, M., & Pullen, A. (eds.): Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing. Palgrave Macmillan, 69-89.
Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2019). Closing for the Benefit of Openness? The Case of Wikimedia's Open Strategy Process. Organization Studies, 40(3), 343-370.