Reimagining Inclusion at Work

This book is a bold, necessary intervention in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Rather than focusing on marginalised workers as problems to be fixed, it repositions them as assetsindividuals whose unique experiences, insights, and talents are undervalued by conventional organisational systems. Across ten analytically rich and practically grounded chapters, the book interrogates how "othering" operates in everyday workplace structures, cultures, and language, and how it can be dismantled through critical, intentional redesign.

Drawing on global case studies, research across disciplines, and practical tools for change, this volume offers scholars, practitioners, and change-makers a new vocabulary and roadmap for equity. It is an invitation to move beyond fixing people, and toward fixing systemsdeliberately, thoughtfully, and courageously.

Challenges dominant deficit-oriented DEI narratives and offers an asset-based, justice-driven alternative Reorients DEI practice toward equity-centred design and justice-based governance Offers pluralistic, non-Western-informed approaches to equity that challenge the hegemony of Euro-American DEI models

Autorentext

Jacqueline Stephenson is Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research critically engages with workplace discrimination, equity, and inclusion; diversity management in contemporary organisations; and the socio-legal and institutional dimensions of underrepresentation, particularly within the Anglophone Caribbean.

Inhalt

Ch 1: Rethinking deficit narratives the case for asset-based inclusion.- Ch 2: The science of othering psychological and structural mechanisms at work.- Ch 3: Equity audits a mirror or a map?.- Ch 4: Inclusive leadership as praxis moving beyond the performance.- Ch 5: DEI without borders translating justice across cultures.- Ch 6: Data that speaks rethinking metrics and impact in DEI.- Ch 7: The role of organisational memory learning or looping?.- Ch 8: Intersectionality in practice moving beyond buzzwords.- Ch 9: Reclaiming space narratives of resistance, resilience, and redesign.- Ch 10: The future of work is inclusive by design.