Deconstructing Difference: The Rhetoric of Human Resource Managers' Diversity Discourses

Organization Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-74

  Zanoni, Patrizia ^a   Janssens, Maddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Difference; Discourse; Diversity; Human resource management; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842307508     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840604038180     Document Type: Review

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