scholarly journals Diversity Discourse Analysis on Top Romanian Organizations

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1540-1547
Author(s):  
Radu-Dan Irini
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Context ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Diversity Discourse

Although the Anglo-American notion of diversity management is dominating most of the global corporate discussions, this concept still has ample room for improvement in the Eastern European context. Having this in mind, in the current study, the websites of the top 20 organizations located in Romania were content analysed in search of statements and definitions related to diversity, equality, or inclusion. The main findings suggest that there are notable differences between how the top Romanian organizations address different diversity dimensions together with how elaborate the diversity discourse is presented. Throughout the research in the Romanian context, 19 diversity dimensions were identified. The majority of the analysed organizations have at least one diversity statement on their official website, addressing a minimum of three diversity dimensions, however, in the case of seven organizations, there was no statement referring to diversity, equality, or inclusion.

Gender diversity and innovation in mining – a corpus-based discourse analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ylva Fältholm ◽  
Cathrine Norberg
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gender Patterns ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain increased knowledge about gender diversity and innovation in mining by analyzing how women are discursively represented in relation to these two concepts, and in doing so establish how diversity management is received and communicated in the industry. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on analysis of texts including references to gender diversity and innovation in mining found on the web. The tool used to retrieve the data has been WebCorpLive, a tool designed for linguistic analysis of web material. Findings Although increased female representation is communicated as a key component in the diversity management discourse, based on the idea that diversity increases innovation and creativity, closer analysis of texts on diversity and innovation in mining shows that what women are expected to contribute with has little explicit connection with innovation. Research limitations/implications The study contributes with increased knowledge about diversity management by providing an example of how it is received in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Practical implications The findings indicate that for diversity management to have a real effect in mining, it needs to be based on gender equality and social justice motives, rather than on a business case rationale – the principal motive today. To enable this change, stereotypical gender patterns, as shown in this study, need to be made visible and problematized among policy makers, practitioners and actors on all levels of the industry. Originality value The study contributes with new knowledge about gender in the mining industry previously not attended to by using a method which so far has been sparsely used in discourse analysis, although pointed out as promising.

scholarly journals The Politics of Separation and Participation: Autonomous Spaces in Kaunas, Lithuania

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Tomas Marcinkevičius
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Past

Abstract For the past four years autonomous spaces that vary in nature but are run by virtually the same group of people have been operating in Kaunas, Lithuania. In the Lithuanian context, they are one of the most prominent recent attempts at continuous radical leftist political infrastructure. In the Central and Eastern European context, they are peculiar for not being connected to public housing struggles. This article draws an outline of their modes of operation and paradigmatic shifts by examining their history as well as theoretical and sociological material and using extensive interviews conducted with participants. Awareness of the complicated relation between meaningful separation and broader participation is suggested as a reflexive means of becoming hubs of political involvement.

Regularities of diversity discourse: Address, categorization, and invitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Juul Christiansen ◽  
Sine Nørholm Just
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Management ◽  
Constitutive Rhetoric ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Diversity Discourse

AbstractManagerial discourses on diversity invoke goals of inclusion and emancipation of suppressed individuals and groups as well as objectives of creating benefits for organizations and society. Partially due to this two-fold emphasis, diversity discourses may, however, be as restricting as they are liberating to the subjects of which they speak. In this article we suggest that utterances pertaining to diversity discourse should be understood as constitutive rhetoric marked by three discursive regularities: address, categorization, and invitation. These regularities underlie and restrain the multiple discursive practices of the developing field of diversity management, and as researchers and practitioners alike continue to explore and enhance this field it is important to understand – and seek to broaden – its conditions of possibility. Emphasizing the theoretical argument about discursive regularities and their articulation, we provide an illustrative example of the how different discursive practices may reproduce common limitations by exploring contributions to Danish diversity discourse.

“Turned into the Women’s Journal”: Representation of sportswomen in Hungary’s sports magazine

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Antunovic
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Context ◽  
Athletic Competence ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Patterns ◽  
Conservative Values ◽  
Visual Coverage

Over the last few decades, scholars have dedicated much attention to the coverage of sportswomen in the media. However, few of these studies are situated within the Central Eastern European context. In this study, I analyze the textual and visual coverage of sportswomen in the Hungarian monthly sports magazine Presztízs Sport and examine the ways in which Hungarian national identity is articulated through discourses of sport, athletic competence, and womanhood. This sports magazine reflects some of the global patterns in the representation of sportswomen, but also distinguishes athletes based on the sport’s historical success in Hungary. Further, it positions the családanya, the “family-mother” as a gender ideal that transcends other representation categories. The maternal athletic body affirms conservative values and contributes to the aspirations of nation-building through both reproduction and elite sporting success.

scholarly journals Dyadic Coping in an Eastern European Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petruta P. Rusu ◽  
Peter Hilpert ◽  
Maria N. Turliuc ◽  
Guy Bodenmann
Keyword(s):  
Dyadic Coping ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Context

scholarly journals Move Analysis of letters of Recommendation Written by Lecturers in a Ghanaian University

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 01-11
Author(s):  
Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful ◽  
Emmanuel Kyei
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
European Context ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Textual Space ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Letters Of Recommendation

The scholarship on the rhetoric of letters of recommendation (LRs) has tended to cover those from the Anglo-American and European context. The present study aimed to investigate the structural organization of the LRs through an examination of the moves. The data consisted of purposively sampled 24 LRs written for candidates seeking admission into postgraduate programmes. The quality content analysis of the data complemented by some descriptive statistics showed that the LRs were characterized by a five-move structure: purpose of writing (move 1), context of knowing the candidate (Move 2), candidate’s credentials (Move 3), candidate’s personal values (Move 4), and closure (Move 5). In addition, with regard to the sequence of moves, the study found: (1) that the 5-move sequence was the most frequently used; (2) that the LRs mostly began with Move 1; (3) that the 1-›3-›3 sequence occurred most frequently; and (4) that Move 5 always occurred at the end of the UEW LRs.  As regards the textual space of moves, it was found that Move 3, Candidate’s credentials, occupied the greatest space (i.e. 53.01%) in the LRs. Finally, the study implies that, while critical individual preferences exist in style, conventions of writing LRs are typically embedded in epistemological structures that are unique to the discipline. The present study has implications for the existing scholarship on LRs, EAP pedagogy and further research.

Disrupting Diversity Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-301
Author(s):  
Adam Hubrig ◽  
Jessica Masterson ◽  
Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais ◽  
Shari J. Stenberg ◽  
Brita M. Thielen
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Management ◽  
Diversity Discourse

This article shows how diversity discourse and programming function as a dominant pedagogy by highlighting three commonplace approaches to diversity: as a defense to mitigate a problem, as a commodity to be collected, and as a threat to those in privileged positions. The authors intervene in these approaches by forwarding a difference-driven pedagogy, which seeks to foster movement toward the practice of deliberation, the recognition of difference as in flux, and the willingness to be vulnerable in engaging the complex, messy work of difference.

Representatie van sekswerk in Nederland: een vergelijking tussen Jojanneke in de prostitutie en Filemon op de Wallen

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-184
Author(s):  
Linda Duits ◽  
Floor Boschhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Red Light District ◽  
Restrictive Policy

Abstract Representation of sex work in the Netherlands: a comparison between Jojanneke in de prostitutie and Filemon op de Wallen Since 1999, sex work in the Netherlands has been partly legalized. Despite a reputation of tolerance, Dutch media represent sex workers as victims, opening the door to more restrictive policy. In this article, we report on a discourse analysis of two documentary series, Jojanneke in the prostitution (2015) and Filemon in the Red Light District (2017). We show that stigmatizing discourses dominate the former: sex work is brought as a gruesome, criminal practice, that even as a chosen profession is unattractive, where Dutch natives and escorts are the exception to the rule and where women lack agency. The latter title is more ambivalent. Discourses of sex work as work dominate, but it also emphasizes that sex work is an unattractive profession where Eastern-European workers are naive victims and that is inextricably related to crime. Recommendations for journalists to counter stigma are made.

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