The globalisation of diversity – learning from different heritages
„One of the reasons diversity pioneers invented this concept back in the 1980s was to add a more positive and business-orientated perspective to what had been mainly a legal compliance issue. Consequently, a comprehensive approach was developed into more outward-driven programmes that aimed at supporting business results (“diversity for the bottom line”), beyond reasons of fairness and equality (“doing the right thing”). By the mid- 1990s, Europe inherited this focus from the US, which had already moved the paradigm into mature, business-orientated strategies.“
Read the article, published in the Journal „Convergence“ in March 2007. It reflects the development of the concept in the United States and Europe and presents the new approach of “ globalizing diversity“.
