Productive Diversity in Australia- How and Why Companies Make the most of Diversity

Productive Diversity was adopted as a government policy in the early 1990swith the aim to increase Australian business access to and success in tradingwith increasingly diverse domestic and export markets through the productivecapacity of Australia's multicultural labour market. Despite Australia'shighly multicultural workforce however policy adoption has been patchy.This research asks why some companies have actively adopted diversity managementstrategies while others have not. This book examines the conceptand theory of productive diversity in the Australian context and critically analysesthe varied ways in which the term productive diversity has been employed.This research tests whether or not there are certain business characteristicsthat are related to the adoption of productive diversity and showsthe varied ways in which the policy concept has been deployed by Australia'smost profitable companies. This book will be of interest to human resourcemanagement professionals those engaged in social policy and planning andresearchers in the fields of cultural studies organisational theory and businessmanagement.