Full Description
This book explores the opportunities, challenges, and effective approaches to organizational change regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Featuring application-based case studies and practical guidelines for meaningful organizational change, this book problematizes some of the current DEI initiatives in today's organizations. It examines multiple forms of diversity (e.g., race, age, and mental health) from a variety of perspectives (e.g., leadership and employee), with case studies that demonstrate how changemaking efforts can be reimagined and implemented in better, more nuanced, and more sustainable ways to produce meaningful organizational change. Through these case studies, readers learn from organizations' successes and failures in their attempts to implement DEI practices. Each chapter concludes with explicit practical implications and/or actionable recommendations for organizational changemaking.
This text will make an impactful addition to courses in communication and diversity or organizational communication/change at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level, and will be an essential guide for professionals wishing to lead change in their organizations.
Contents
1. Introduction: Communication and Organizational Changemaking for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Part 1. Envisioning More Equitable Structures, Policies, and Practices 2. Finding the Right Fit: Strategies for DEI Sourcing in AI-Driven Recruitment 3. Age Discrimination in the Workplace: An Exploration of Age-Blind Hiring Practices. 4. Against Professionalism and "Good" Communication: Transforming Exclusionary Assumptions in Interviews and Beyond 5. Language-Discordance as a Barrier to Health Equity: Identifying Inclusive Practices in Health Organizations from Patients' Perspectives 6. Taking Action to Increase Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Integrity and Compliance-Based Training as a Foundation for Training in Organizations 7. Reimagining FacultyßàInstitutional Engagement with Equitable and Inclusive Practices to Foster Meaningful Organizational Changemaking in Higher Education 8. Beyond Performative Allyship: Moving from Intention to Action in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Part 2. Challenging Dominant Discourses and Fostering Dialogue 9. "Work-Life Balance? That's Just for Managers": Time Policies and Practices in Blue-Collar and White-Collar Work 10. Challenging Institutional Whiteness: The Lived Experiences of Structural Tensions in Diversity Work 11. "#BeingBlackandMuslim": Addressing Intersectional Invisibility in Muslim American Communities 12. Pedagogy and Mentorship as Organizational Changemaking: An Autoethnographic Vignette Approach 13. Compassion at the Margins: Increasing Compassion for Employees from Traditionally Marginalized Groups 14. Action-Oriented Dialogues for Systemic Change: A Trauma-Informed Approach 15. Facilitating Structures and Processes for Ethical Dialogue Across Difference: A Case Study of an Interorganizational Collaboration for Social Change 16. It's the Hope That Kills You: Belonging and Organizational Change in Ted Lasso Part 3: Promoting Meaningful and Impactful Organizational Leadership 17. "It's a safe space, right?": The Complexities of Communicating LGBTQ+ Inclusion Via Artifacts 18. Meandering, Mistakes, and Movement: Stages of Organizational Culture Change for DEI 19. Collaborative and Inclusive Leadership: Co-Cultural Calls for Dominant Group Action 20. Black Women Religious Leaders Diversifying Mental Health Training 21. Equity-centered Leadership and Sustainable Change-making: An Organizational Imperative for Post-Pandemic Leadership and Advancement 22. Whitewashing the Walls: Leading Organizational Change from Cultures of Mistrust to Celebrating Sisterhood 23. Organizing for Transgender Inclusion: How Control and Resistance Theorizing Serve as Intervention Tools
