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Workforce Diversity and Inequality: Power, Status, and Numbers
Abstract
Workforce diversity refers to the composition of work units in terms of the cultural or demographic characteristics that are salient and symbolically meaningful in the relationships among group members. Although generally thought of as the purview of management research, the topic of workforce diversity draws from and is relevant to research from sociology and psychology. In this review, we highlight two issues: (a) the importance of the substantial research on inequality to an adequate understanding of workforce diversity and (b) the need to link discussions of workforce diversity to the structural relationships among groups within the society. We organize the review in terms of three dimensions of the relationships among groups: power, status, and numbers (or composition). We highlight research from sociology, psychology, and management and show similarities and gaps across these fields. We also briefly discuss the outcomes of workforce diversity in the workplace.
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- Authors
- DiTomaso, N., Post, C., & Parks-Yancy, R.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2007-08-01
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 473-501
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W2111193756
- Cited by
- 478
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 16.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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