Diversity management in practice: the case of diversity work in a swedish municipality

ABSTRACT

What does it mean to practice diversity management and how do people experience working in a so called diverse organisation? These are the questions explored in an ongoing case study of a diversity management in practice in a Swedish municipality. Early findings of the study point to that diversity as ambiguously experienced by the employees, as it is not clearly positively or negatively experienced. Diversity is also found to be a complex matter to manage and to live your every day life in. Further, the findings point to that diversity is managed at two different levels; a micro level, where it is a matter of management that does not differ that much from management with out diversity as a prefix, and at a meso level where the focus is on changing the employees' attitudes towards diversity and behaviours. This is done through the measures of diversity lectures and diversity training.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Law, social and behavioral sciences

    • Sociology