Introduction: The Key Analytical Themes

Mike Noon and Emmanuel Ogbonna

Chapter 1 in Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment, 2001, pp 1-14 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The concept of equal opportunities is increasingly being replaced with the notion of the management of diversity. It has been a gradual drift, emanating from writers and organisations in the USA, travelling across to the UK and seeping into mainland Europe. In both theory and practice it offers a new challenge to both conceptualising and tackling the issues of equality, discrimination and injustice in employment. The chapters in this collection illuminate different aspects of these changing theoretical and practical problems. In particular they lay down two challenges. The first is to explore the nature of equality by analysing the framework, assumptions and policy implications that emerge from an approach of equal opportunity compared with the management of diversity. The second is to examine how groups become disadvantaged and unfairly discriminated against. This introduction is organised around these two analytical themes because this provides an opportunity to explore the common ideas and different tensions across the chapters as a whole. It further allows us to introduce the chapters through summarising their central ideas at the outset, rather than seeking to draw together the themes at the end; consequently, there is no concluding chapter. This, we argue, is a more dynamic way of integrating the chapters. In this respect, the introduction can be seen as the centre of a network of ideas, problems, dilemmas and themes that interlink the various chapters.

Keywords: Ethnic Minority; Trade Union; Human Resource Management; Procedural Justice; Equal Opportunity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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