Responding to Work-Force Diversity: Conceptualization and Search for Paradigms
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-1994
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1050651994008003007
Abstract
Research in business disciplines about work-force diversity has been inadequate in terms of precise conceptualization and theoretical grounding. Two psychological paradigms from training literature (cognitive and affective) are examined here, but, because of their inability to explain the sources and significance of organization-level change, sociological paradigms about dominance and intergroup dynamics are presented as viable theoretical supplements. Substantive sharing of power with diverse or nontraditional employees hitherto marginalized in U.S. organizations is proposed as one potentially effective response to managing work-force diversity. Systemwide structural changes in U.S. organizations of today are recommended for optimizing diversity.
Publication Information
Limaye, Mohan R.. (1994). "Responding to Work-Force Diversity: Conceptualization and Search for Paradigms". Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 8(3), 353-372.