Do "hard" diversity policies increase ethnic minority representation?: An assessment of their (in)effectiveness using administrative data

Personnel Review

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 647-664

  Verbeek, Stijn ^a   Groeneveld, Sandra ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diversity management; Diversity policies; Employment equity; Ethnic minorities; Ethnic minority representation; Organizational responsibility; Preferential treatment; Target figures; Targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863793410     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481211249157     Document Type: Article

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