Reconciling Competing Discourses of Diversity? The UK Non-Profit Sector Between Social Justice and the Business Case
Reconciling Competing Discourses of Diversity? The UK Non-Profit Sector Between Social Justice and the Business Case
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调和多样性的竞争性话语？
DOI：
10.1177/1350508409350237
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
C. Schwabenland
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作者：
F. Tomlinson;C. Schwabenland
商业案例和社会正义方法之间的紧张关系形成了多样性和平等领域辩论的一个关键点。然而，当组织本身的“业务”涉及社会正义时，它们作为本质上对立的表现就受到了质疑。本文通过对英国志愿（非营利）组织的研究，揭示了在平等和多样性的地方建构中发现的歧义和差异。管理者和多元化专家通过在组织对社会正义的承诺中重新加入功利主义论点，调和了道德和商业的基本原理；然而，与多元化相关的重大困境仍然存在。这篇文章主张将研究议程从相互竞争的“案例”转向研究如何在日常组织实践中应对多样性带来的挑战。
The tension between the business case and social justice approaches forms a crucial point of debate in the diversity and equality field. However, their presentation as essentially oppositional is brought into question when the ‘business’ of the organization itself concerns social justice. This article draws on research in UK voluntary (non-profit) organizations to reveal the ambiguities and variations found in local constructions of equality and diversity. Managers and diversity specialists reconciled moral and business rationales through re-inscribing utilitarian arguments within an organizational commitment to social justice; however, significant dilemmas associated with doing diversity remained. The article argues for a shift in the research agenda away from competing ‘cases’ and towards investigating how the challenges that diversity presents can be worked through in day-to-day organizational practice.