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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

The significance of trying : How organizational members meet the ambiguities of diversity

Författare

  • Annette Risberg
  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

Abstract We address the uncertain outcomes of diversity work in organizations by showing that diversity management does not let itself be reduced to a matter of success and failure. Drawing upon theories of ambiguities in organizations and 2.5 years of longitudinal fieldwork in a Swedish municipality, we show that ambiguities characterize diversity work, including what diversity encompasses, the goals of diversity management, and its outcomes. To account for these ambiguities, we suggest approaching diversity management in terms of trying rather than outcomes. First, focusing on trying emphasizes that working with diversity entails a shifting, relative, and tension-filled notion. Second, it brings forth the tentative performativity of diversity management. Third, it opens up ways of looking at diversity in the workplace beyond a reductionist dichotomy between success and failure. Diversity work has no clear end, but this lack of an endpoint does not call into question its raison d'être. On the contrary, it makes it a reason to insist on trying to strive for enhancing diversity.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2022-09-30

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1849-1867

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Gender, Work and Organization

Volym

29

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • ambiguity
  • diversity management
  • diversity work
  • performativity
  • Sweden
  • trying

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0968-6673