Diversity Management in Sustainability Reports: A Case Study from Turkey

Abstract

Purpose

Diversity management concerns organizational practices to enhance the value of diversity in organizations by changing organizational culture and shaping work environment in which diversity can promote the organizational goals. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the diversity management practices in sustainability reports by exemplifying in the case of Turkey, which is an emerging economy with a complex and multiethnic society.

Design/Methodology/Approach

A comprehensive literature and qualitative research is conducted in order to understand the diversity management in a cultural context by looking at the company’s sustainability report in Turkey.

Findings

In Turkey, companies have responsibility to position the participation of employees in business opportunities as an important value of corporate culture by implementing diversity projects, and they announce these initiatives in their sustainability reports.

Research Limitations/Implications

This research is a study about diversity in Turkey case. An example is limited to the company publishing a sustainability report.

Practical Implications

This study may be useful for the board of directors and managers since they should become aware of understanding of the diversity management in the workplace especially in their sustainability mechanisms.

Originality/Value

This study is valuable and attractive to create an open organizational culture where each employee is valued and where diversity issues all employment practices. Also, it is original to show why diversity is important in sustainability disclosures.

Citation

Çalışkan, A.Ö. and Esen, E. (2019), "Diversity Management in Sustainability Reports: A Case Study from Turkey", Diversity within Diversity Management (Advanced Series in Management, Vol. 21), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 65-83. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120190000021004