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Research Task 1: diversity management in organisations RT1 approaches cultural diversity as a dynamic and relational social process embedded in specific contexts. This task intends to contribute to a non-essentialised understanding of diversity through its contextualization. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between diversity and the power relations in which it is embedded (from a synchronic as well as a diachronic perspective). WHO IS WORKING IN RT1? The scientific leader of RT1 is Maddy Janssens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven). The partners are: Patrizia Zanoni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) Kiflemarian Hamde and Nils Wahlin, Umea University (UMU, Sweden) Maritta Soininen, CEIFO-Stockholm University (SU, Sweden) Francesco Chiapparino, Università Politecnica delle Marche (UnivPM-DSS, Italy) Jose Fernando Galindo Cespedes, Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado (CIPCA, Bolivia) EXAMPLES OF RESEARCH QUESTIONS IN RT1: Position Paper: the state-of-the-art in diversity management in organisations Strategic Paper: a forward-looking plan for research in diversity management in organisations WORKING PAPERS: SUS.DIV Working Papers more EURODIV Working Papers more EXAMPLES OF RESEARCH OUTPUT: Book chapter on "Dealing constructively with diversity: cultural intelligence", Maddy Janssens and Tineke Cappellen, 2008. more Conference paper on "Strategies to cope with perceptions of difference", Maddy Janssens and Koen van Laer, 2010. more Research paper on "Swedish ethnicity produced in the antidiscrimination law - views and expectations of employers", Angela Nilsson, 2010. more Research paper on "Organizational strategies for diversity", Kiflemariam Hamde, 2010. more Guest editing a special issue on “Diversity rethought: unpacking diversity and diversity management”, Patrizia Zanoni, Maddy Janssens, Yvonne Benschop and Stella Nkomo, 2010. more Research paper on "Diversity from the perspective of organizational theory", Maddy Janssens and Patrizia Zanoni, 2010. more Research paper on "Everyday discrimination at the workplace", Maddy Janssens and Koen van Laer, 2010. more