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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

ISSN : 2040-7149

Article publication date: 15 May 2020

Issue publication date: 12 November 2020

Diversity management plays a significant role in the organization’s outcomes. This study seeks to provide a brief review of the history of diversity management and to identify the articles published on diversity management since 1991. A systematic review of the literature has been carried out to understand the literature in more detail to know the future scope of research.

Design/methodology/approach

This study provides a comprehensive systematic review of quantitative, qualitative and theoretical studies published in leading peer-reviewed management journals from 1991 to 2018 and identifies 123 articles that fall within its established search inclusion criteria.

The literature review highlighted several aspects related to diversity management. The findings of the study revealed that there is a high concentration of researches in the USA and most number of articles published in the Academy of Management Journal. Although diversity management is a very emerging topic across the globe in management literature yet there is a lack of research in developed countries. Furthermore, most studies are found empirical in nature and the majority of the studies were published during the period of 1996–2000. This finding suggests that age, gender and racial diversity have been repeatedly discussed in diversity management research while other forms of diversity have given less attention

Originality/value

This study is one of the first systematic studies that describe the in-depth analysis of diversity management literature. The significant contribution of this study is to propose the integrated model with contemporary trends and patterns of results reported in diversity research, as well as contextual factors that have received more attention to date.

  • Demographic diversity
  • Diversity management
  • Systematic literature review
  • Workforce diversity

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and Editor for their valuable inputs to publish this article.

Yadav, S. and Lenka, U. (2020), "Diversity management: a systematic review", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion , Vol. 39 No. 8, pp. 901-929. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-07-2019-0197

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