This article explores how disabled workers engage with the ableist discourse of disability as lower productivity in constructing positive identities workplace. Disabled employees inhabit a contradictory discursive position: individuals, they are discursively constructed for what unable to do, whereas constituted human resources and expected be able produce create value. Our analysis 30 in-depth interviews identifies three types practices through which construct workplace identities: (1)...

This article analyses texts on diversity produced in 25 interviews with Flemish human resource (HR) managers from a critical discourse analysis and rhetorical perspective. Following analysis, we analyse how HR define diversity, their discourses reflect existing managerial practices underlying power relations, they reaffirm or challenge those relations. Specifically, examine enters managers’ local of through the very micro-dynamics language by analysing schemes use grand Discourses draw from....

abstract This study analyses how minority employees engage with control in organizations. Differently from most critical studies of diversity management, which focus on are discursively controlled, we approach (diversity) management as a constellation both identity‐regulating discourses and bureaucratic controls. We assume that agents who actively resist and/or comply the controls they subject to. Based qualitative data collected technical drawing company hospital, specific each organization...

Conceptualizing organizational representations of disabled workers as a form socio-ideological control, this study investigates the identity regulation employees. The comparative analysis bank, labour market intermediary organization and local public administration unveils distinct ways in which able-bodied/disabled dichotomy is used to regulate workers’ function goals work: by subsuming them into ideal employee, constructing negation able-bodied employee mutually dependent workers. These...

Contrary to current definitions of diversity as a set priori sociodemographic characteristics, this study re-conceptualizes an organizational product. Through the analysis qualitative data from four service organizations, we show that organization-specific understandings are based on way employees’ differences affect organization work, either contributing it or hampering it. Such diversity, in turn, shape approaches management. From our empirical results, further inductively derive two...

This study advances a critical re-conceptualization of ‘diversity’ through class. Drawing on the case CarCo, Belgian branch North American automobile company, I show how discursive constructions various socio-demographic identities reflect underlying class relations between labour and capital are, in turn, implicated their reproduction. Reflecting instrumental conceptualization as source economic value capitalist mode production, female, older disabled workers were discursively constructed...

Drawing on Fairclough’s comprehensive social theory of discourse as text, practice and discursive practice, the paper examines how discourses diversity are implicated in power dynamics Belgian branch an international automobile company. Our analysis shows interlocked with occupations. On one hand, speakers’ occupational practices conditional for emergence multiple, occupation-distinct diversity. other, their speakers not only construct but at once deploy it a symbolic currency to reaffirm...

Much literature on the cultural industries celebrates ethnicity as a source of creativity. Despite its positive connotation, this discourse reduces ethnic minority creatives to manifestations collective identity automatically leading creativity, creating paradox creativity without creative subject. Approaching with an background agents, article investigates how they self-reflectively and purposely discursively construct in their work. Empirically, we analyze interviews well-established...

This paper argues that, to fulfil the ambition foster equality and social justice, diversity research should move outside empirical ideational boundaries of firm, which have historically limited our knowledge production on change. We first look back at 30 years research, reflecting how main theories, concepts models are entangled with four root images firm – a neutral container, an economic entity, cultural entity space inequality fundamentally shaped way thinking about forms action achieve...

This study examines the relative impact of three sources work-to-family conflict among hospital nurses: work-family policy use (childcare assistance, schedule flexibility, part-time work), job dimensions (work overload, autonomy, overtime hours, night shifts, regularity in type shift, weekend work, hierarchical position, variation tasks) and organisational support (physician/co-worker support).Many studies claim that are more important than use, a relation has not been fully investigated....

AbstractThis paper investigates the role of ethnic majority staff in perpetuation monocultural education that excludes non-western, minority cultures and reproduces institutional racism schools. Based on qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews four ethnically diverse schools Flemish educational system, we specifically investigate reproduction school practices a discursive theoretical lens. The study advances current literature by showing how situated meanings at micro...

This paper responds to the emergent calls for recovering role of contentious politics in prefigurative communities more effectively transform capitalist institutions. Theoretically drawing on work Judith Butler, our points importance addressing institutional frames that demarcate who will be (mis)recognized public space and which are at core politics. Our analysis Coop case shows how not incompatible, but can rather strengthen each other a virtuous circle. When articulated redefine existing...

In this introduction to the second part of special issue on alternative economies published in Organization 2017, I first briefly chart key fora where debate has continued last two years, and then present three additional contributions included here. Moving conversation forward, argue that, order evaluate prefigurative potential organizations, we need address more thoroughly relation between alternatives their outside. A productive place ground reflection is post-capitalism anti-capitalism....

We at Organization are committed to “Black Lives Matter,” three simple words that represent a complex and powerful set of truths about the ongoing struggles Black community against structural interests beset them. share many values guide this global social movement. As journal, we pledge carry ethical political momentum generated by mobilization for justice forward in organization studies beyond. This brief note is both reminder what have stood as critical scholars since our early days, an...

Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study investigates how entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWDs) position themselves, in their identity work, vis-à-vis dominant, normative representations of the entrepreneur that tend to exclude them. Addressing current neglect EWDs deal such discursive barriers, we document four positions which they deploy, various combinations, construct an as entrepreneur. Our findings show outward positions, by compare own self (non)-entrepreneurial (able-bodied)...

This paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form labour governmentality in one Amazon’s warehouses Poland. Guided by critical theory under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed principles organizing work (e.g., gender, age, ability) are unmade: management deskilled an algorithmic system, non-selective hiring workers, enforcement social norms interpersonal respect and universal system casualized...