1st Edition

Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM

Edited By Jasmin Mahadevan, Claude-Hélène Mayer Copyright 2017
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Workplace diversity has become increasingly relevant to academics and practitioners alike. Often, this issue is tackled merely from a business-oriented/managerial point of view. Yet such a single-level perspective fails to acknowledge both the macro-societal context wherein companies and organizations act and the micro-individual dynamics by which individuals construct and affirm their identities... Read more

List of Editors



List of Contributors



INTRODUCTION Workplace diversity, Muslim minorities and reflexive HRM: Concepts, challenges and power-implications in context



PART I: Perceptions of Islam and Muslim minorities



CHAPTER 1 Muslim minorities and Islam in HRM literature: identity labels and authoritative sensemaking



CHAPTER 2 Islamophobia, the impossible Muslim, and the reflexive potential of intersectionality



CHAPTER 3 The Muslim-makers: how Germany ‘Islamizes’ Turkish immigrants



PART II: Muslim identities and dominant discourses at the workplace



CHAPTER 4 Constructing identity: implications for reflexive HRM



CHAPTER 5 Muslim identity in corporate South Africa: a reflexive approach



CHAPTER 6 Blinded by the news. how HRM practitioners risk being biased by stereotypes about Muslims



PART III: Ethics, leadership and Muslim women



CHAPTER 7 Islamic Ethics in secular organizations: exploring practises of 30 Muslim managers in the Alsace region of France



CHAPTER 8 Diversity discourses and corporate Canada: unveiling images of the Muslim woman at work



CHAPTER 9 Muslim women in senior management positions in Canada: advancement, perceptions of success, and strategies for inclusive HRM



CONCLUSION Towards a more inclusive HRM theory and practice



Index

Biography

Jasmin Mahadevan is a full Professor of International Management with special focus on Cross-Cultural Management at Pforzheim University, Pforzheim, Germany.



Claude-Hélène Mayer is an Adjunct Professor at the Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.