Social regulation and diversity management: a comparative study of France, Canada and the UK

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Klarsfeld, Alain;Ng, Eddy;Tatli, Ahu
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Much of the diversity management debate is trapped in a binary opposition between regulation and voluntarism. We argue for an evidence-based approach and illustrate this by offering a context-sensitive overview of workforce diversity debate and practice in three countries: France, Canada and the UK. We use Reynaud's social regulation theory in order to challenge the assumption that there is a clear separation between regulation and voluntarism. The article unpacks the complexities and ambivalences of regulation of workforce diversity, which is generated by multiple influences.

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18

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1461-7129

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19

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Sage

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10.1177/0959680112461091