Equality. Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment

This edited collection brings together research findings from a wide range of academics investigating equal opportunities and managing diversity. It explores the impact of gender, race/ethnicity, disability and age on employment opportunities and examines theoretical issues underlying the experience of discrimination. Based on original research, each chapter analyzes a different facet of equality and diversity and draws out the policy implications. The chapters adopt a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze cases from various countries, highlighting differences and similarities in the formulation and implementation of equality and diversity policies.

Author Biography

MIKE NOON is Professor of Human Resource Management at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University. In addition to racial/ ethnic discrimination, his research and publications cover contemporary developments in Human Resource Management, the impact of technological change on work organisation and industrial relations. He has previously taught and researched at Cardiff Business School, and Lancaster University. – EMMANUEL OGBONNA is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Business School and director of the postgraduate diploma in Business Administration. His major research interests are in the areas of organisational strategy, culture, human resource management and the UK food retail sector. His other research interests cover all aspects of race discrimination on government sponsored training programmes. He has published papers in scholarly and practitioner journals and he has acted as a consultant to a number of public and private sector organisations.