Changing Views on Diversity Management: The Rise of the Learning Perspective and the Need to Recognize Social and Political Contradictions

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 345-361

  Lorbiecki, Anna ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Difference; Discrimination; Diversity; Learning; Management; Perspectives; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347081828     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601323004     Document Type: Article

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