Organizational diversity has become a topic of interest for practitioners and academics alike. This book explores how diversity in organizations is, and can be researched, providing readers with insights into the potential research designs for studies in contemporary organizations.

Sine Nørholm Just is Pofessor of Strategic Communication at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

Annette Risberg holds a PhD from Lund University, Sweden and is Professor of Diversity Management at Copenhagen Business School

and Professor of Organization and Management at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Florence Villesèche is Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Business in Society platform for Diversity and Difference at Copenhagen Business School.

Introduction

1. Researching Organizational Diversity: Opportunities and Challenges

PART I: Diverse bodies and the research context

2. Colonialism as Context in Diversity Research
3. Diversity Beyond Whiteness: The Possibilities for Anti-Racist Diversity Research
4. White Bodies in Postcolonial Ethnographic Research
5. Men Researching Women's Experiences of Sexism and Discrimination: An Impossible Position?
6. Weird Ways of Normalizing: Queering Diversity Research through Norm Critique

PART II: Inclusive research

7. Does Empirical Research on Work and Employment Consider the Needs of Disabled Participants? An Empirical Investigation
8. Overlooked or Undercooked? Critical Review & Recommendations for Experimental Methods in Diversity Research
9. Diversity as Heterogeneity and Inequality: The Case of Nationality
10. Claiming a Livable Academic Life as Critical Diversity Scholars: A Butlerian Reflection on our Collective Performativity
11. Taking Liberties: Emancipating Knowledge for Equality

PART III: Doing field work

12. Shadowing as a Liminal Space: A Relational View
13. Feminist Organizational Ethnography: When the Epistemological Is Political
14. Queering LGBT-Friendliness: Three Possibilities (and Problems) In a Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Diversity
15. Videography: A Study of Diversity Management Taken to the Streets

PART IV: From data to analysis

16. Researching Business Celebrity Autobiographies: Mapping a New Site for Diversity Research.
17. Studying Diversity at Work from a Class Perspective: An Inductive and Supra-Categorical Approach
18. Studying Diversity with Social Network Analysis
19. Causal Analysis in Qualitative Inquiry to Map Marginalization and Inclusion

Conclusion

20. Doing Diversity Research - What Now?