A critical perspective on diversity in the workplace: discourses, practices and identities in nonprofit organizations.

The central aim of this research is to explore to what extent nonprofit organizations are able to manage an increasingly diverse workforce. Focusing on ethnic minorities in Flemish nonprofit organizations, the proposed research has two goals. Firstly, the research aims to propose a sociological and empirical assessment of how the existing discourses and strategies on diversity management are shaped within the organization and its broader structural and societal context. Secondly, I will investigate the role of ethnic groups' competencies and cultural identities within the organization and their ability or inability to fully employ them in the workplace. On a practical level, my aim is to identify organizational characteristics that facilitate or prevent the crafting of broader norms on competencies and identities. This gives me the opportunity to provide organizations with a set of alternative diversity management tools

Keywords:SOCIAL PROBLEMS, INEQUALITY, NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS, DIVERSITY

Disciplines:Public and not for profit management, Radical and critical sociology, feminist studies, Race and ethnic relations, Sociology of work, Social problems