Inequality and Organizational Practice

Bringing together international authors, this edited collection addresses the need for greater inclusivity within organizational policy and practice, in order to tackle both visible and invisible inequalities amongst employees. Volume II reflects the shift in thinking around organizations' responsibility to recognize and value diversity and equality, and examines the wider implications for employment relations and working conditions. Providing strategic insight into diversity management, the authors aim to advance our understanding of informal discrimination in the workplace, offering practical suggestions for better leadership and allocation of resources. A useful guide for practitioners, policy-makers and scholars of HRM and organization, this book presents solutions to inequality issues in the workplace, with the goal to building stronger employment relations.

Covers a range of inequalities such as age, disability, gender and reassignment, race, religion, sexual orientation, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity Provides academic evaluation on the meaning of diversity management, and diversity training needs for modern organisations. Includes case studies as well as theoretical and conceptual chapters

Auteur
Stefanos Nachmias is Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School, UK. He is experienced in developing and delivering diversity awareness educational programmes and supporting organisations in addressing equality issues. His research interests include an assessment of line managers' diversity needs, gender in the workplace and employment practices.

Valerie Caven is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School, UK. She holds an Academic Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include gendered work and policy failure leading to hidden inequalities.

Contenu
1.Inequality and Organisational Practice: Employment Relations; Stefanos Nachmias, Valerie Caven and Serena Bradshaw.- 2. Diversity and Equality Issues in Modern Organisations; Stefanos Nachmias, Eleni Aravopoulou and Valerie Caven.- 3. Diversity Training and Learning in Modern Organisations; Stefanos Nachmias, Fotios Mitsakis and Valerie Caven.- 4. Silenced Inequalities: Too Young or Too Old?; Ning Wu.- 5. Hidden Care(e)rs: Supporting Informal Carers in the Workplace; Louise Oldridge.- 6. The Take-Up and Quality of Part-Time Work Among Men; Amanda Thompson and Daniel Wheatley.- 7. Identifying and Addressing Hidden Structural and Cultural Inequalities in the Workplace; Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt.- 8. Employee Silence and Voice: Addressing Hidden Inequalities at Work; Konstantina Kougiannou.- 9. Informalisation in Work and Employment: A Permissive Visibility or Another (Hidden) Inequality?; Ian Clark.- 10. Hidden Inequalities Amongst the International Workforce; Gaye Özçelik,Washika Haak-Saheem, Chris Brewster and Yvonne McNulty.- 11. Hidden Inequalities of Globally Mobile Workforce: A Cross-Cultural and Trust Perspective; Konstantina Kougiannou and Maranda Ridgway.- 12. Expatriation and Incapacity Created by a Multitude of Hidden Equalities; Christine Mortimer.