Managing the Organizational Melting Pot

Dr. Anshuman Prasad is Professor of Management and University Research Scholar at the University of New Haven. Prior to coming to New Haven, he has taught in the Faculty of Management of the University of Calgary (Canada), and at the International MBA Program of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), one of Europe's leading MBA Programs. At the UNH College of Business he teaches courses in Strategic Management/Business Policy and Management Process. Professor Prasad has produced over 100 scholarly works, including books, research articles, book chapters, conference papers and presentations, and other intellectual contributions. His research has been published in some of the leading academic journals of the field, including Academy of Management Review; Organization Science; Organizational Research Methods; Human Relations; Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies; Journal of Applied Behavioral Science; Journal of Business Communication; Journal of Management Education; and Journal of Management Inquiry. He is the editor of Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement(Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 2003), a pioneering scholarly book that has received strong endorsements from some of the leading researchers of the discipline, and a co-editor of Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (Sage Publications, 1997), an acclaimed book on workplace diversity and multiculturalism. His books have been positively reviewed by top-tier journals like the Academy of Management Review; Administrative Science Quarterly; and Organization Studies. He brings an interdisciplinary orientation in his research, which deals with such themes as globalization and its implications for business and management, strategic action and corporate legitimacy in the global petroleum industry, workplace diversity and multiculturalism, organizational culture and ideology, resistance and empowerment in organizations, and epistemological and pedagogical issues. Dr. Prasad lends his expertise to a number of academic journals as editorial board member, special issue editor, and ad-hoc reviewer, and has acted as Program Committee Member/Track Chair at several important scholarly conferences in the United States and abroad. He served as Executive Committee Member (2002-2004) and Program Chair (2003-2004) for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, the world's largest scholarly association in the field of management. He has also served as Track Chair at conferences organized by the International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Group, EGOS (the European Group for Organizational Studies), and the Eastern Academy of Management. Professor Prasad has been invited to present his research at several major universities, including the University of Cambridge (U.K.), Rutgers University, and Lund University (Sweden). Before joining academe, he earned an MBA degree with concentration in finance, and worked as an executive in the commercial banking sector for nine years.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION From Showcase to Shadow - Pushkala Prasad and Albert J Mills Understanding the Dilemmas of Managing Workplace Diversity PART TWO: THEORIZING THE DILEMMAS OF WORKPLACE DIVERSITY (In)corporating the Other? Managing the Politics of Workplace Difference - J Michael Cavanagh The Sexually Specific Subject and the Dilemma of Difference - Collette Oseen Re-Thinking the Difference in the Construction of the Non-Hierarchical Workplace The Unbearable Whiteness of Being - Roy Jacques Reflections of a Pale, Stale, Male Class Discipline - Richard Marsden IR/HR and the Normalization of the Workforce The Protestant Ethic and Myths of the Frontier - Pushkala Prasad Cultural Imprints, Organizational Structuring and Workplace Diversity Dreams of Diversity and the Realities of Intergroup Relations in Organizations - Michael B Elmes and Debra L Connelley PART THREE: DILEMMAS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE Dueling Discourses - Albert J Mills Desexualization versus Eroticism in the Corporate Framing of Female Sexuality in the British Airline Industry, 1945-60 Women in the Academy - Pat Bradshaw and David Wicks Cycles of Resistance and Compliance `We Have To Make a Management Decision' - Mark Maier Challenger and the Dysfunctions of Corporate Masculinity When Organizations Do Harm - Paula Caproni and Joycelyn Finley Two Cautionary Tales The Colonizing Consciousness and Representations of the Other - Anshuman Prasad A Postcolonial Critique of the Discourse of Oil Triple Jeopardy - E Joy Mighty Immigrant Women of Color in the Labor Force How International Is International Management? Provincialism, Parochialism, and the Problematic of Global Diversity - Diana J Wong-MingJi and Ali Husain Mir PART FIVE: CONCLUSION Issues in the Management of Diversity - Anshu Prasad and Michael B Elmes