Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jul 1994

Responding to Work-Force Diversity

MOHAN R. LIMAYE

Abstract

Research in business disciplines about work-force diversity has been inadequate in terms of precise conceptualization and theoretical grounding. Two psychological paradigms from training literature (cognitive and affective) are examined here, but, because of their inability to explain the sources and significance of organization-level change, sociological paradigms about dominance and intergroup dynamics are presented as viable theoretical supplements. Substantive sharing of power with diverse or nontraditional employees hitherto marginalized in U.S. organizations is proposed as one potentially effective response to managing work-force diversity. Systemwide structural changes in U.S. organizations of today are recommended for optimizing diversity.

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
1994-07-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651994008003007
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing across the curriculum affect and writing

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