Springer Shaping Inclusive Workplaces Through Social Dialogue (Industrial Relations & Conflict Management)

Product Description This book presents Social Dialogue as a social innovation strategy for managing diversity at any step of the human resource circle. It showcases empirical research on how to improve open dialogue and constructive negotiations between management, trade unions and employee representatives using multi-disciplinary perspectives from psychology, business, law, gender studies, sociology and management. This book delivers the latest research to promote a change of attitudes, behaviors and competences on diversity and social inclusion, and develop effective organizational responses in terms of policies and procedural aspects to improve inclusion of vulnerable groups at work. The authors and editors explain effective development tools for an inclusive workplace through Social Dialogue, showing that it is possible to achieve this by integrating values, policies and practices at organizational level. The diversity of contributions from different organizational contexts, countries and cultures results in this being a valuable book for a wide range of scientists, researchers, students and human resource managers as they seek to shape inclusive workplaces through Social Dialogue. From the Back Cover This book presents Social Dialogue as a social innovation strategy for managing diversity at any step of the human resource circle. It showcases empirical research on how to improve open dialogue and constructive negotiations between management, trade unions and employee representatives using multi-disciplinary perspectives from psychology, business, law, gender studies, sociology and management. This book delivers the latest research to promote a change of attitudes, behaviors and competences on diversity and social inclusion, and develop effective organizational responses in terms of policies and procedural aspects to improve inclusion of vulnerable groups at work. The authors and editors explain effective development tools for an inclusive workplace through Social Dialogue, showing that it is possible to achieve this by integrating values, policies and practices at organizational level. The diversity of contributions from different organizational contexts, countries and cultures results in this being a valuable book for a wide range of scientists, researchers, students and human resource managers as they seek to shape inclusive workplaces through Social Dialogue. About the Author Alicia Arenas is Associate Professor at the University of Seville. Her research has been focused on Social Cognitive Theory and self-regulatory mechanisms in different applied areas. Currently, she is working on diversity and occupational health psychology. From her position as coordinator of Master Programs in Work and Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management, she focuses on how to develop diversity policies in order to improve well-being and health. Donatella Di Marco is PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology.  Her research focuses on diversity and discrimination at work. She explores to what extent protected groups are victims of modern forms of discrimination (e.g., selective incivility), highlighting consequences of such behaviors at a personal and organizational level. At the moment, she is carrying out her post-doctoral research at University of Seville, Spain. Lourdes Munduate is Full Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Seville (Spain). Her research focuses on conflict management, negotiation, power dynamics, and employment relations. She is (co)author of international scientific journals and she also publishes regularly for practitioners.  She is member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and Chair of the Spanish Research Agency for Psychology (ANEP). She holds the Lifetime Achievement Fama Award by University of Seville. ="" (paris)="" kopenhagen="" (denmark).="" (co)author="" more="" than="" 120="" publi