Dear all,
Barbara Sieben and I will be glad to meet you Monday, and hopefully discuss new projects in the wake of the completion of the
Research Handbook of International and Comparative Perspectives on Diversity Management (to be published next October, Edward Elgar).
See you Monday ! (below is a brief description of the symposium)
Alain Klarsfeld
Session 1050 : Symposium Diversity and Inclusion through HRM : Country Perspectives
Organizers : Barbara Sieben, Alain Klarsfeld
In the present symposium we intend to discuss the potentials and barriers of diversity and inclusion through human resource management (HRM) from single and cross-country perspectives. The symposium includes four papers that consider diversity and inclusion from different angles and diverse main foci. The first paper (Klarsfeld) attempts to frame where comparative research on equality, diversity and inclusion is heading to, drawing on previous and current literature and projects and an analysis of research gaps. The next paper focuses on diversity and inclusion in a specific country: Canada (Ng, Lyons and Schweitzer), another two take a country-comparative stance: United States and France (Merryweather Woodson and Ollier-Malaterre) and Germany and Turkey (Kornau, Sieben and Knappert). While the paper on Canada focuses on the intersection of gender and immigration status regarding millennials (Ng et al.)-the remaining two papers examine the historical, legal and political framings of diversity and inclusion in the examined countries as well as their impact on research approaches and diversity management concepts such as intersectionality (Merryweather Woodson and Ollier-Malaterre) and on the moves, strategies and barriers of actors wanting to promote equality and diversity at work (Kornau et al.). Taken together, the papers give rich insights into the contextual underpinnings of diversity and inclusion and/or on the study of intersectionality in various contexts. Theoretical and practical implications will be derived through cross-readings and cross-discussions as well as through interactive group discussions.