ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book focuses on how to manage workplace diversity involving Muslim minorities. It expresses that Human Resource Management (HRM) needs to engage in a critical, constructive and reflexive practice to move beyond limitations. The book focuses solely on contexts wherein Muslim individuals constitute an organizational and societal minority, for instance North America, Western Europe and South Africa. It explores how the experiences of Muslim employees differ across contexts and when related to other diversity markers such as gender, managerial class and perceptions of the body. The book provides additional insights into how exactly diversity works in context and across multiple individual, organizational and societal levels as related to wider frameworks. It also provides theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches and specific examples for how one might move beyond the constraints of dominant and often discriminatory discourses, practices and structures in organizations.
