Managing in Diversity: the Major Domain and Contemporary Transitions

Udaya Mohan Devadas

doi:10.18778/8220-533-6

Managing in Diversity: the Major Domain and Contemporary Transitions

Udaya Mohan Devadas

University of Kelaniya, Department of Human Reosurce Managment

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4617-1409 (unauthenticated)

Publikacja:

Facets of Managing in Cross-Cultural Diversity

Serie: Zarządzanie

Strony: 39-67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-533-6.04

Słowa kluczowe: Human Resources, Migration of Employees, Social Capital, Intelligent (Ro)Bots, European Identities in Business, Cross-Cultural Diversity

Opublikowane: 16 listopada 2021

Kategorie: Ekonomia i zarządzanie, Otwarty dostęp

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Diversity has been a popular term both in theory and practice for many decades, especially with globalization. This chapter discusses diversity and diversity management with special reference to cultural diversity. The aim of this chapter is to understand: how diversity has been viewed and explained, what concepts and models explain diversity, what solutions are given in managing diversity, and what the future of managing cultural diversity might be. A targeted literature review was carried out for the purpose, using journal articles, selected books, theses and documents, as well as other open web sources. The review outcomes show that: diversity has been viewed differently in different times, it is mainly explained in terms of its cognitive and cultural dimensions, diversity management has been mainly targeted for performance improvements, and in the future managing cross-cultural diversity is likely to focus on enabling individuals to be more successful in different cultures, based on their cultural competencies and intelligence, rather than on ethnocentric views towards other cultures.

Udaya Mohan Devadas - University of Kelaniya, Department of Human Reosurce Managment

Udaya Mohan Devadas, PhD, senior lecturer (grade 1) at the department of human resource management, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and consultant in HRM and HRD. He earned his PhD in human resource development from the Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2013 and his Master of Business Administration degree from the Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka, in 2005. His research interests include national human resource development, corporate HRD and HRM, women in leadership, qualitative research methods, and grounded theory research. He has published international book chapters with Springer links and Pearson’s publishers, and articles in indexed and international academic journals. He is currently the editor-in-chief in the Kelaniya Journal of Human Resource Management, and the coordinator of the Faculty’s staff development. He was a visiting researcher in 2017 and 2018 at the University of Lodz, Poland and has been the former head of the department of HRM, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka while holding many administrative positions, including chair and co-chair in international and national conferences.

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Świątek-Barylska, Ilona, i Udaya Mohan Devadas, red. 2021. „Managing in Diversity: The Major Domain and Contemporary Transitions”. W Facets of Managing in Cross-Cultural Diversity, 39-67. Zarządzanie. Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-533-6.04.

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