Towards a Multicultural World: Identifying Work Systems, Practices and Employee Attitudes that Embrace Diversity

Charmine E. J. Härtel
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Charmine E. J. Härtel: Centre for Business Research, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, 336 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, VIC 3144.

Australian Journal of Management, 2004, vol. 29, issue 2, 189-200

Abstract: The research program described focuses on identifying the role of organisational culture, as reflected in workplace systems and practices, and employee and group attitudes in the outcomes of interactions among dissimilar parties. A systematic, theory-testing approach underlies the program, which aims to both develop and validate the diversity openness construct. The Perceived Dissimilarity-Openness Moderator Model developed from the research asserts that the affective, cognitive and behavioural consequences of diversity depend in part upon the perception of difference and subsequent quality and magnitude of the response to the perceived dissimilarity. When individuals or social systems (groups or organisations) are diversity-closed, outcomes are predicted to be less positive than when they are diversity-open.

Keywords: DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT; WORKPLACE DIVERSITY; DIVERSITY OPENNESS; OPENNESS TO PERCEIVED DISSIMILARITY; CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION SKILLS; STEREOTYPES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/031289620402900203

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