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Metaphor and dialectic in managing diversity

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Metaphor and dialectic in managing diversity/ Christina Schwabenland.
Author:	Schwabenland, Christina.
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 224 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Diversity in the workplace - Management. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137022677
ISBN:	9781137022677 (electronic bk.)

Metaphor and dialectic in managing diversity
Schwabenland, Christina.

Metaphor and dialectic in managing diversity[electronic resource] /Christina Schwabenland. - Houndmills, Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (ix, 224 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Re-writing Imagination into Management -- 'All beautiful poetry is an act of resistance' Introducing Metaphor -- Fireworks and Football Crowds: Metaphor as Theory -- Listening to Evelyn Glennie: Metaphor as Art -- 'Exchanges with strangers and things alien' Introducing Dialectic -- Polarities, Paralysis and Paradox: Centrifugal Dialectics -- Hybridity and Synthesis: Centripetal Dialectics -- Cacophony or Polyphony? Concluding Thoughts.

The diversity of the workforce and the implications for management continue to be the focus of a great deal of interest. This is partly because of the importance and urgency of the issues that diversity entails and also because of a growing recognition that many of the dilemmas of diversity management are not proving amenable to easy solutions. Indeed, recent research demonstrates that Britain and the US are, in many ways, becoming more, rather than less unequal societies. This book suggests that metaphor and dialectic play a powerful role in shaping our understandings of ourselves and each other. It draws on original research in organizations and in management education to explore how we can become more aware of these processes within ourselves and challenge those assumptions and stereotypes that contribute to maintaining people in disadvantaged positions.

ISBN: 9781137022677 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613844552

Source: 410408Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

720304
Diversity in the workplace
--Management.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HF5549.5.M5 / S39 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 658.3008

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