Locating class in organizational diversity work: Class as structure, style and process

Handbook of Workplace Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 431-454

  Scully, Maureen A ^a,b   Blake Beard, Stacy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Simmons School of Management   (United States)

^c Simmons School of Management   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608092.n18     Document Type: Chapter

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