By Cordula Braedel-Kühner, Andreas Müller
New articles in social sciences
Re-thinking range from a Cultural technology standpoint functional ways and utilized study on Diversity
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This quantity includes a suite of recent principles, issues and questions in the direction of a phenomenon which we're used to consult with the main time period “diversity”. the purpose of the ebook is to supply a cultural sciences point of view on “diversity”, to develop wisdom approximately it and enhance the discussion among lecturers and practitioners in comparable domain names of motion. at the present time, alterations within the demographic buildings of the inhabitants, the migration flux, multiculturalism, the emerging knowledge referring to minorities’ rights, gender reports etc bring about a posh photograph of what “diversity” ability. The narrative of a society and of such a lot corporations is constituted through a number of layers of social categorization, segregation and id. accordingly, “diversity” defies easy definition. The contributions during this quantity method the phenomenon from assorted angles and demonstrate new theoretical, methodological and functional views on it.
Contents
Re-thinking variety from a Cultural technology Perspective
Diversity in Organizations
Diversity within the Community
Diversity within the Media
Practical methods and utilized learn on Diversity
Target Groups
Lecturers and scholars of economics and social sciences, philology and cultural studies
Executives from enterprise, politics and administration
The Editors
Prof. Dr. Cordula Braedel-Kühner, Freie Waldorfschule Offenburg, Offenburg
Prof. Dr. Andreas P. Müller, Karlshochschule overseas collage, Karlsruhe
Topics
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Cultural Studies
Communication experiences
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61-77. Joshi, A. and Roh, H. (2008): A contextual examination of work team diversity research: A review and future agenda. In: Mannix, E. and Neale, M. ): Research on Managing Groups and Teams (vol. 11). Scarborough: Emerald Publishing, pp. 27–53. Joshi, A. and Roh, H. (2009): The role of context in work team diversity research: A metaanalytic review. In: Academy of Management Journal, 52, pp. 599-628. Kirschbauer, D. (2013): Believing shapes Perceiving? The Impact of Diversity Beliefs on Team Effectiveness in Diverse Teams.
80). The distinction between the individual and the group level of diversity is important because different theoretical foundations and different measurement approaches needs to be considered. b. Conceptualizing Diversity – The Dualistic Approach Diversity has been conceptualized in many different ways. A dualistic view dominates the exploration and operationalization of diversity (for reviews, see Joshi and Roh 2008, van Knippenberg and Schippers 2007, Williams and O’Reilly 1998). Diversity is hereby differentiated into observational (Milliken and Martins 1996) or surface-level diversity (“overt, biological characteristics that are typically reflected in physical features”, Harrison et al.
Cohesion, conflict, and identification), which in turn are mediated by the elaboration of task-relevant knowledge. There is empirical evidence for this model. For example, an experimental study by Meyer et al. (2011) showed that perceived social categorizations (diversity) but not diversity ‘faultlines’ have an effect on elaboration. A faultline is a hypothetical dividing line that splits a group into relatively homogeneous subgroups based on the group members’ alignment along multiple attributes (Bezrukova et al.