Metaphor and Dialectic in Managing Diversity

1. Front Matter

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2. Re-writing Imagination into Management

   1. Re-writing Imagination into Management

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      Pages 1-24

3. Metaphor and Managing Diversity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ‘All beautiful poetry is an act of resistance’: Introducing Metaphor

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      Pages 27-52

   3. Fireworks and Football Crowds: Metaphor as Theory

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   4. Listening to Evelyn Glennie: Metaphor as Art

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4. Dialectic and Managing Diversity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. ‘Exchanges with strangers and things alien’: Introducing Dialectic

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      Pages 105-128

   3. Polarities, Paralysis and Paradox: Centrifugal Dialectics

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      Pages 129-153

   4. Hybridity and Synthesis: Centripetal Dialectics

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   5. Cacophony or Polyphony? Concluding Thoughts

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5. Back Matter

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Metaphor and dialectic are modes of thinking that influence the ways in which we identify what we have in common with others, how we differ and how we manage this diversity to achieve organizational goals. This book explores how we can become more aware of these unconscious processes and challenge stereotypes.

• Diversity
• management
• organization
• organizations

• University of Bedfordshire, UK

  Christina Schwabenland

CHRISTINA SCHWABENLAND Reader in Public and Voluntary Sector Management at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and has taught and researched diversity management in voluntary organizations in the UK and in India. She is the author of Stories, Visions and Values in Voluntary Organisations and has published in a number of journals including Organization and Journal of Management Education.

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