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Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies:
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Employers have experimented with three broad approaches to promoting diversity: organizational responsibility for diversity, moderate managerial bi-partitioning, and diversity education as discussed by the authors. But none of these approaches have been widely accepted.Abstract:
Employers have experimented with three broad approaches to promoting diversity. Some programs are designed to establish organizational responsibility for diversity, others to moderate managerial bi...read more
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Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses
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The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets
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Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies
TL;DR: This paper conducted a systematic analysis of three broad approaches to promote diversity in the private-sector: diversity training, diversity evaluation, and reducing social isolation of women and minority workers, and found that efforts to moderate managerial bias through diversity training and diversity evaluations are least effective at increasing white women, black women, and black men in management.
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Does Diversity Pay?: Race, Gender, and the Business Case for Diversity:
TL;DR: The value-in-diversity perspective argues that a diverse workforce, relative to a homogeneous one, is generally beneficial for business, including but not limited to corporate profits and earnings.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
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