Diversity management (also: Managing Diversity) is a concept of the management, which would like to use the heterogeneity of the persons employed considered and for the advantage of all involved ones.

Diversity management does not only tolerate the individual difference (English: diversity) the coworker, but particularly emphasizes these in the sense of a positive appreciation.

Goals of Diversity management are:

• to reach a productive total atmosphere in the enterprise,
• To prevent discriminations from minorities to and
• to improve the equal chances.

However not the minority is located in the focus, but the whole of the coworkers in its differences. With in the Diversity management differences which can be considered acts it on the one hand around the outwardly perceptible differences, of those the most important sex, Ethnie, age and physical handicap is and on the other hand subjective differences like sexual orientation, religion and life-style. With Diversity management acts it around more than only the conversion of anti-discrimination regulations, but around a total concept of handling personaler varieties in an enterprise to the use all involved one, thus also the entrepreneur. Diversity management is thereby very much more than a Unternehmenskultur.

Since end of the 1990er years Diversity management ever more to the quality criterion of enterprise concepts and is presupposed with public advertisements (e.g. in the context of the European social fund) than characteristic in the description of the planned activities.

Newer organization-scientific beginnings of Diversity management attribute a deinstitutionalisierenden character to this. Diversity management can be seen from this perspective as dissolution mechanism for the paradigm of the Institutionalismus.

Literature

• Gardenswartz, L., Rowe, A.: Managing Diversity. A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide. Homewood, Ill. 1993 (McGraw Hill Companies)
• Hartmann, Gabriella/Judy, Michaela (Hrsg.): Differences make. Managing Gender & Diversity in organizations and society. Vienna 2005 (edition people's highschool)
• Koall, iris/Bruchhagen, Verena/high, Friederike (Hrsg.): Variety instead of Lei (D) tkultur - Managing Gender & Diversity in theory and practice, 2002 (Lit)
• Thomas, R.R.: Management OF Diversity - new personnel strategies for enterprises. How do giraffe and elephant fit into a Wiesbaden 2001 (Gabler)
• Stuber, Michael: Diversity. The Potenzial of variety use - increase which success by openness. Luchterhand 2004. Neuwied.

Related links

• Diversity management with the UBS AG
• Diversity management with Ford
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• Diversity management University of Vienna
• Article on business wissen.de
• Information portal migration, integration, Diversity
• The information portal to Diversity - Downloads, introductions, Business Case
• diversityworks - information to Diversity management in Austria
• Managing Gender & Diversity in Austria and Germany
• Definition and implementation of a Diversity strategy
• Study (intermediate result, English): DO diversity friendly companies by form more

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