The Difficulty with Diversity: White and Aboriginal Women Workers' Representations of Diversity Management in Forest Processing Mills. The Difficulty with Diversity: White and Aboriginal Women Workers' Representations of Diversity Management in Forest Processing Mills.

The Difficulty with Diversity: White and Aboriginal Women Workers' Representations of Diversity Management in Forest Processing Mills‪.‬

Labour/Le Travail 2011, Spring, 67

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THIS PAPER CRITICALLY examines diversity management in a multinational forest company in Saskatchewan, Canada. Drawing on insights from intersectionality theory, ir highlights how white and Aboriginal women's experiences inform our understanding of workplace practices to include marginalized groups. Scholars in organization studies have critiqued diversity management for how its underlying individualism translates into a narrow understanding of difference. This critique is complicated by demonstrating how women's experiences and representations of diversity management were uneven. Women's portrayals of diversity management were structured by their gender, class, and by whether they were white or Aboriginal. Women's experiences and representations extend critiques of diversity management by uncovering some of the ways that corporate liberal ideology works through local constructions of difference. Since diversity management did not challenge white women's beliefs of meritocracy, it helped to re-inscribe racism towards Aboriginal peoples. CET ARTICLE NOUS PERMET d'examiner d'un oeil critique la gestion de diversite dans une entreprise forestiere multinationale en Saskatchewan, Canada. S'appuyant sur des idees de la theorie de l'intersectionnalite, li met en evidence comment les experiences des femmes blanches et autochtones eclairent notre comprehension des pratiques de travail afin d'inclure les groupes marginalises. Les chercheurs en etudes de rorganisation ont critique la gestion de diversite de la facon dont l'individualisme sous-jacent se traduit dans une conception etroite de la difference. Cette critique est compliquee en demontrant comment les experiences des femmes et les representations de la gestion de diversite ont ete inegales. Les representations des femmes dans la gestion de diversite ont ete structurees selon leur sexe, classe et selon le fait qu'elles etaient de face blanche ou autochtone. Les experiences des femmes et les representations s'etendent les critiques de la gestion de diversite en decouvrant quelques-uns des moyens que l'ideologie liberale de l'entreprise fonctionne par l'intermediaire des constructions locales de la difference. Etant donne que la gestion de diversite n'a pas mis en doure les croyances des femmes blanches de la meritocratie, elle a contribue a reinscrire le racisme envers les peuples autochtones.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2011
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
57
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Committee on Labour History
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
350.9
KB
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