Increasing Diversity: Loss of Control or Adaptive Identity Construction?

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-429-3563-1
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Christian Perspectives on Lead

Diversity has been a leadership topic since at least the 1990’s. Since
then, socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, religious and ethical diversity
continues to increase through massive migration and digital media. This
increasing complexity of diversity is now labeled as
“superdiversity.”



Organizations become complex adaptive systems to respond to these
challenges. Some organizations thrive, achieving new levels of
creativity and innovation. Other organizations are overwhelmed, losing
control, threatened to the core of their identity. How can
organizational identities be adapted to incorporate healthy levels of
diversity without losing vision, direction and control? Which
organizational and leadership skills are needed to enhance creativity
and productivity in a superdiverse environment?



An international conference at the ETF (Leuven, Belgium) addressed these
challenges. This volume sketches the contours of the diversity
leadership debate, its ethical and spiritual dimensions and the shape of
diversity leadership in religious institutions such as faith communities
and schools of theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barentsen, J.

Kessler, V.

van den Heuvel, S.C.

Heuvel, S. van den

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie