ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the value of investigating stakeholder perspectives on Diversity Management (DM). It is essentially a position piece which briefly describes the main findings from a two year, UK-based DM research project and informed by multiple stakeholder perspectives, it situates these within broader themes and debates within the DM field. Much of the academic debate on DM takes place either in the general management or the human resource management (HRM) literature; as a managerialist paradigm, this perhaps seems the natural home for DM research. The research also confirms that UK organizations are employing the business case as a prominent feature of the rhetorical rationale for DM. However, the business benefits cited by the DM practitioners and other organizational stakeholders closely resembled those advocated in prescriptive management literature. Overall the chapter finds that actual practices and initiatives continued to reflect a traditional equal opportunities (EO) paradigm.
