The Discourse of Diversity: From Biology to Management
The Discourse of Diversity: From Biology to Management
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多样性话语：从生物学到管理学
DOI：
10.1177/135050849742003
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发表时间：
1997
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3
通讯作者：
Deborah R. Litvin
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作者：
Deborah R. Litvin
通过追溯劳动力多样性话语的起源到自然科学和哲学领域，并分析另外两个当代多样性话语--生物多样性和人类基因组多样性计划，本文揭示了当代多样性话语所基于的本质主义假设。它展示了这些本质主义假设是如何构建最近出版的组织行为学教科书样本中提出的劳动力多样性的概念化的。探讨了采用这种本质的多样性概念化的组织后果，并提出了对差异的另一种概念化的建议。
By tracing the origins of workforce diversity discourse to the domain of natural science and philosophy, and analyzing two other contemporary diversity discourses, biodiversity and the Human Genome Diversity Project, this paper reveals the essentialist assumptions upon which contemporary diversity discourse is based. It demonstrates how these essentialist assumptions structure the conceptualizations of workforce diversity presented in a sample of recently published organizational behavior textbooks. The organizational consequences of the adoption of this essentialized conceptualization of diversity are explored, and a suggestion for an alternative conceptualization of difference is offered.