Podcast: Diversity Management in Denmark and Beyond
Listen to this podcast on diversity management and how large organisations, like companies and trade unions, can learn from social movements such as Pride. While some of it may be lip service, the hope is that some elements stick, resulting in more diverse and inclusive workplaces across the Nordics and beyond.
Jannick Friis Christensen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School, and he looks at formal and informal approaches to diversity – particularly from the perspective of queer theory – including how Danish trade unions approach LGBTI issues. He is also researching how events such as Roskilde Festival and Copenhagen Pride have increasingly become a force for sociopolitical change and how that is often harnessed by corporate sponsorship and partnership - for better or for worse. In this podcast, he is interviewed by editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe.
Further reading:
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‘Diversity in companies: Involvement in Pride pays off’, 3rd January 2022, Article by Copenhagen Business School (2022).
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Jannick Friis Christensen, Bontu Lucie Guschke, Kai Inga Liehr Storm, Sara Louise Muhr, ’The norm of norms in HRM research: A review and suggestions for future studies’, Human Resource Management Review (2021).
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Jannick Friis Christensen, ‘Queer organising and performativity: Towards a norm-critical conceptualisation of organizational intersectionality∗’, ephemera 18, 1 (2018) pp. 103-130.
Links:
- Copenhagen Business School project: Beyond Identity Politics and Pinkwash: Are Pride Parades becoming an Integrative Civil Religion?
- Copenhagen Pride, Malmo Pride and World Pride and Eurogames 2021
- Independent Research Fund Denmark
- Roskilde Festival
- FIU-Equality (FIU ligestilling) - a partnership on equality between The Danish Metalworkers’ Union (Dansk Metal), National Federation of Trade Unions in the Service Sector (Serviceforbundet) and The United Federation of Danish Workers (3F).
- Workplaces for everyone – 8 steps towards a workplace with LGBT+ equality