Business Integrity in Practice

Chapter 12

Improving Organizational Integrity Through Humanistic Diversity Management

The Case of Minority–Majority Relations in Healthcare Organizations and Academic Institutions

Helena Desivilya Syna

Amit Rottman

Michal Raz

Introduction

In light of globalization processes, diversity of workforce and organizational membership constitutes a reality in most parts of the world.¹ Notwithstanding the pervasiveness of this phenomenon, its ramifications on humanistic organizational practices, particularly on workplace integrity, have hardly been examined.

Constructive engagement of diversity constitutes a vital component of humanistic management in the current organizational reality, embedded in a complex sociopolitical and cultural context.² Employers, ...