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100			_aZanoni, Patrizia
245			_aDeconstructing difference: the rhetoric of human resource managers' diversity discourses
260			_c2004
300			_ap.55-74.
520			_aThis article analyses texts on diversity produced in 25 interviews with Flemish human resource (HR) managers from a critical discourse analysis and rhetorical perspective. Following critical discourse analysis, we analyse how HR managers define diversity, how their diversity discourses reflect existing managerial practices and underlying power relations, and how they reaffirm or challenge those managerial practices and power relations. Specifically, we examine how power enters HR managers' local discourses of diversity through the very micro-dynamics of language by analysing the rhetorical schemes they use and the grand Discourses they draw from. This critical, text-focused approach to diversity discourses contributes to the development of a non-essentialist reconceptualization of diversity that acknowledges power. - Reproduced.
650			_aHuman resources development
700			_aJanssens, Maddy
773			_aOrganization Studies
909			_a59537
999			_c59537 _d59537