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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"equality and diversity"”.
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Workplace equality and diversity in Iceland : organizational efforts and influence on employees
… management intentions to enhance or manage equality and diversity in organizations positively influences employee perceptions of equality, diversity, justice and trust. Participants in the study in phase one were 35 human resource managers in Icelandic organizations with 70 or more …
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Voice and visibility: tackling the ‘invisibility’ of the sexual orientation strand in UK organisation equality and diversity research
… the nine published outputs in this submission, and explains their genesis. It considers the implications of the growing visibility of the sexual orientation strand for individuals and organisations operating in the UK context before and after the introduction of the Employment Equality (Sexual …
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Contextualising diversity management: challenging the effectiveness of the business case
… ‘business case’ to achieving greater equality and diversity in organisations and highlights the need for a systemic and contextual approach through inclusion of employee voice. The absence of employee participation in building diversity strategies leads to inconsistent initiatives …
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An Exploration of the Role of ‘Community’ in the Search for Workforce Diversity at the Shipyard
The concept of workforce diversity has been considered from many perspectives. Based on the equality legislation, the ‘equal opportunities’ approach evolved, with the premise of moral concern (Noon and Ogbonna 2001) and equality (Cockburn 1991), where all individuals are treated the same by …
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A reconstructive study of HR practitioners’ enactment of equality: the discourses of ‘legal guardianship’
The thesis examines the enactment of workplace equality through an analysis of HR generalist talk. The primary data is contextualised by a review of the literature on HR, equality and diversity, and the regulatory terrain. The study is based on interviews with HR practitioners from 40 UK …
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Promoting equality in primary education : putting policy into practice in one local education authority
… one English Shire County, Trentshire', promotes equality in its primary education service. Set in the wake of the Macpherson Report, it investigates the pressures for local government of implementing a social justice agenda alongside other initiatives in an existing framework of neo-liberal …
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The Lived Experience of Inheritance for Muslim Widows in Contemporary South Africa
… drawing upon case law, archival research and in-depth interviews with 6 Muslim widows in Cape Town. I examine women's experience of and attitudes towards inheritance in middle class Muslim families around Cape Town. This research aims to document Muslim widow's experiences of inheritance, …
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Intersecting identities in healthcare education: Exploring the influence of gendered environments on healthcare students’ workplace learning, retention and success
<p class="MsoNormal">Equality and diversity legislation across the UK and Australia has stimulated the health profession sector to make workplace equality and diversity policies transparent to service users (Wadham et al.2010; RCN 2016; GMC 2016; WGEA 2012). However, research literature has …
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Forensic collision investigation: finding the order within the chaos
… Investigation Community, The Wider Demographic and The Expert Witness. It covers a 15-year career of the work of a Forensic Collision Investigator responsible for the investigation of road traffic collisions resulting in catastrophic injuries or fatalities. Included in the thesis is the …
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Black African Students’ Experiences of Social Work Practice Learning in England: A Critical Race Inquiry
… have received limited attention within academic and practice discourse. This is despite the reported evidence of growth in numbers of students of black African origin enrolling onto social work qualifying programmes and experiencing delayed progression and poorer attainment. This thesis seeks to …
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Contributions of women managers to the UK construction industry
… variousbarriers they face in entering, remaining and progressing in the industry. The lack ofwomen employees has become a prominent issue as the industry needs to tackle theshortage of skilled labour and manage equality and diversity issues in construction.Taking both of these problems into …
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Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel
… of collaborating parties from both the public and private sector, aimed at developing new methods and ideas in order to counteract discrimination and all kinds of inequality in working life. The thesis poses the following research questions: How are the problems that the development …
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The Equality Act 2010 and empty diversity : neoliberal legislation and inequality in the lives of trans* and sexgender nonconforming people
This thesis explores how effectively equality and diversity legislation in the UK offers recognition and protection to trans* and sexgender nonconforming people by engaging with their contemporary experiences. In order to explore these dynamics I give a genealogical and multidisciplinary context to …
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How Do Non-Academic Women Who Identify as Black and Ethnic Minorities in HEIs in the UK Experience Challenges in their Career Progression Aspirations and How Can This Be Understood Using an Intersectionality Lens?
Career progression for non-academic Black and minority ethnic (BME) women is challenging and has resulted in HEIs having questionable approaches in their endeavours to achieve fair representation. The Equality Act (2010), which meant to help reduce inequality in organisations including HEIs, has …
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Discourses of Widening Participation and Social Inclusion
… explores the relationship between policies and initiatives designed to widen participation in post-compulsory learning and notions of social inclusion. Whilst both widening participation and social inclusion can be viewed as distinct policy areas, the focus for this research are the links …
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'Transsexual' people in UK workplaces: an analysis of transsexual men's and transexual women's experiences
This thesis explores transsexual men’s and transsexual women’s experiences of UK workplaces. It investigates the mediation of visible/invisible gender-diversity/atypical gender-history, and the ways in which this influences trans-employees’ experiences of discrimination, protection, support, and …
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A case study review of equality in sport organisations
This thesis explores inequality in sport with a particular focus on sports’ National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and other sports organisations. The thesis adopts a critical realist lens to embrace the multi-factorial nature of inequality influenced by Shaw’s (2007) challenge that sports researchers …