Diversity management and identity in organisations : from liminality to inclusion

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This book advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality, where gender is considered merely as a binary and diversity as something to manage, to inclusion, where diversity means a commitment to supporting a processual way to approach both belongingness and uniqueness within organisation. Through the use of Critical Discourse Analysis, the book investigates a series of UK county-based public and private bodies, combining the analysis of i.  Read more... Intro Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter One 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Diversity in organisations 1.3. A systematic analysis of diversity in the business and management literature 1.3.1. The demographic turn 1.3.2. The political turn 1.3.3. The economic turn 1.3.4. The critical turn 1.4. Advocating a gender (and) identity turn 1.5. Individual and organisational identity: an un-binary view 1.6. Organisational resistance towards a hegemonic binary system 1.7. From liminality to inclusion Chapter Two 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Defining 'discourse'2.2.1. Text 2.3. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) 2.3.1. Being 'critical' in Critical Discourse Analysis 2.3.2. Discourses as practices 2.4. The concept of genre within organisation 2.5. Practices in organisation 2.5.1. The growing interest in bodies and artefacts in organisational studies 2.5.2. Organisational knowledge 2.6. Functional approach to discourse 2.6.1. Functional metaphors 2.7. Conclusions Chapter Three 3.1. Introduction 3.2. How to conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in organisational settings 3.3. Texts in the CDA tradition 3.4. Defining context in CDA3.5. The use of word frequency queries with NVivo 11 3.6. The use of cluster analysis with NVivo 11 3.7. The empirical context 3.7.1. The LGBT+ committee 3.7.2. The county council: adult social care service 3.7.3. Fire and rescue service 3.7.4. The county law enforcement 3.7.5. The university 3.7.6. The multinational 3.7.7. The charity 3.8. Silencing identity/Voicing ide 3.8.1. Voice and silence in organisations Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 References Index