01457pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002100040245004400061260000900105300001400114362000800128520095700136650001801093773004501111909001001156999001701166952010401183180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLevine, David P.  aThe ideal of diversity in organizations  c2003  ap.278-94.  aSep  aThis article offers a psychodynamic exploration of the organizational commitment to diversity. Based on a brief review of organizational rhetoric, two themes are identified. The first is the denial of hatred, which is argued to express the operation of a fantasy of the organization as the peaceable kingdom. This fantasy imagines the organization as a home for those with strong originary group identifications, while refusing to consider how attachment to group identity can foster hate and exclusion. The second theme is the equation of knowledge useful to the organization with life experience connected to group identity. The emphasis in the rhetoric of diversity on the value of experience is linked to a strategy  for coping with loss that seeks to make the experience of loss a source of strength. The importance of acknowledging the reality of hate and of coping with, rather than denying, the consequences of loss is emphasized. - Reproduced.  aOrganizations  aAmerican Review of Public Administration  a58182  c58182d58182  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 33, Issue no: 3pAR58627r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR