For their overview on diversity management and human resources research, Gertraude Krell and Barbara Sieben (2007) conceptualized the perspectives researchers take within the frame of a diversity compass. Following on prior stocktakings of Gertraude Krell on gender and diversity as topics of research and teaching, Barbara Sieben and Daniela Rastetter started a project on management research on gender and diversity (G&D) in German-speaking countries. First, they analysed the uptake of diversity management in mainstream administrative business journals, which they characterized as rather marginal, and above all functionalist in the respective period. Second, they took stock of the publication activities on G&D of the HR and organization sections members of the German Academic Association for Business Research. They found on the one hand quite many chairs (50% out of 294) with publications on G&D; on the other hand, the majority of G&D publications was concentrated on quite a few chairs. Moreover, Sieben and Rastetter (2017) examined the perspectives researchers take in a sample of peer-reviewed articles on gender and other diversity dimensions based on the diversity compass, still detecting a relative lack of critical perspectives. In a next step, they conducted interviews with selected scientists out of the identified “G&D champions” in order to explore interests, resources and power plays in the political arena of G&D research in the German speaking countries.
Selected contributions:
Sieben, B., & Rastetter, D. (2018). Mapping management research on gender and diversity as a political arena: Interests, resources and power plays in German speaking countries. 34th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Tallinn.
Sieben, B., & Rastetter, D. (2017). Management research on gender and diversity in German-speaking countries: A stock-taking. Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und-management, 2(2), 8-23. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v2i2.02
Rastetter, D. & Sieben, B. (2015). Beiträge zu Diversity Management in BWL-Zeitschriften – Themen und Perspektiven [Contributions to diversity management in business administration journals – topics and perspectives]. In E. Hanappi-Egger, & R. Bendl (Hrsg.), Diversität, Diversifizierung und (Ent)Solidarisierung. Eine Standortbestimmung der Diversitätsforschung im deutschen Sprachraum (S. 127-148). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08606-0_7
Krell, G., & Sieben, B. (2007). Diversity Management und Personalforschung [Diversity management and personnel research]. In G. Krell, B. Riedmüller, B. Sieben, & D. Vinz (Hrsg.), Diversity Studies. Grundlagen und disziplinäre Ansätze (S. 235-254). Campus.
Letzte Änderung: 29. September 2022