Diversity management has recently attracted a lot of attention in both academia and practice. Globalization, migration, demographic changes, low fertility rates, a scarce pool of qualified labor, and women entering the workforce in large scales have led to an increasingly heterogeneous workforce in the past twenty years. In response to those ongoing changes, organizations have started to create work environments which address the needs and respond to the opportunities of a diverse workforce. The implementation of diversity policies and practices and the creation of an organizational culture that values heterogeneity have been the focus of recent organizational initiatives. This special issue aims at shedding light on some of open research questions by including both theoretical and empirical contributions.

Creation of an organizational culture Organizational initiatives Theoretical and empirical contributions

Vorwort
Diversity Management

Autorentext
Jürgen Straub (Prof. Dr. phil.) ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Sozialtheorie und Sozialpsychologie an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mitglied im Board des Research Departments "Center for Religious Studies" (CERES) sowie einer der Mentoren der Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge: Production and Transfer". Er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender des internationalen Projekts "Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung" am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI) und Fellow des Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR).

Inhalt

Diversity Research: What Do We Currently Know About How To Manage Diverse Organizational Units?.- Getting Tuned in to Those Who Are Different: The Role of Empathy as Mediator between Diversity and Performance.- Managing Demographic Change and Diversity in Organizations: How Feedback from Coworkers Moderates the Relationship between Age and Innovative Work Behavior.- Gender and nationality pay gaps in light of organisational theories: A large-scale analysis within German establishments.- Women on German Management Boards: How Ownership Structure affects Management Board Diversity.