TY - JOUR
T1 - British diversity professionals as change agents - Radicals, tempered radicals or liberal reformers?
AU - Kirton, Gill
AU - Greene, Anne Marie
AU - Dean, Deborah
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - This paper explores the role of diversity professionals involved in the development and implementation of organizational equality and diversity policy. The paper draws on in-depth qualitative research with diversity professionals in a broad range of British organizations in the private and public sectors. The analysis unravels who diversity professionals are, how they understand the concepts of equality and diversity and how they develop strategies of change in order to pursue their objectives. The conceptions of 'liberal' and 'radical' equal opportunities actors (Jewson, N. and D. Mason, 1986, 'The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies: Liberal and Radical Approaches'. Sociological Review 34(2): 307-34) and 'tempered radicals' (Meyerson, D. and M. Scully, 1995, 'Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change.' Organization Science 6(6): 585-600) are used as frameworks for this analysis.
AB - This paper explores the role of diversity professionals involved in the development and implementation of organizational equality and diversity policy. The paper draws on in-depth qualitative research with diversity professionals in a broad range of British organizations in the private and public sectors. The analysis unravels who diversity professionals are, how they understand the concepts of equality and diversity and how they develop strategies of change in order to pursue their objectives. The conceptions of 'liberal' and 'radical' equal opportunities actors (Jewson, N. and D. Mason, 1986, 'The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies: Liberal and Radical Approaches'. Sociological Review 34(2): 307-34) and 'tempered radicals' (Meyerson, D. and M. Scully, 1995, 'Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change.' Organization Science 6(6): 585-600) are used as frameworks for this analysis.
KW - Change agents
KW - Diversity
KW - Equality
KW - Power
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37049024509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09585190701638226
DO - 10.1080/09585190701638226
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:37049024509
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 18
SP - 1979
EP - 1994
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 11
ER -