| Making Sense of Diversity in Organizing Sport Contributor(s): Knoppers, Annelies (Editor), Anthonissen, Anton (Editor) |
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ISBN: 184126203X ISBN-13: 9781841262031 Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: This book is about the way otherness can be suppressed by dominant meanings. The purpose of the book is to focus on organizational consequences of processes of sense making and assigning meanings to diversity in sport organizations. There is a dominant European perspective on sense making of diversity and a more American approach. The conclusion is that scholars and researchers who work in the area of diversity need to pay attention to both ways of looking at diversity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 796.069 |
| Series: Business of Sports |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.54" W x 9.48" (0.58 lbs) 119 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This superb volume aims to incorporate cutting-edge research designed to transcend the barriers between business and sport. It explores the ways in which diversity can be suppressed by dominant forces.It focuses on the organizational consequences of making sense and assigning meanings to diversity in sporting organizations, paying particular attention to the different approaches used in Europe and America. It concludes with a discussion on their various successes and the ways in which these approaches can be combined to produced a coherent strategy for dealing with diversity in sporting organizations. |
