Diversity management in companies and organizations

This book shows the results of a research on Diversity Management, as a result of a collaboration between CAFRE Interdepartmental Center for Updating, Training and Educational Research of the University of Pisa; Master in Empowerment of Different Skills and Inclusive Education of the University of Pisa; LINK Laboratory for Universities and Companies; Degree Course in Management Engineering at the University of Pisa. The aim of the research project is to investigate the issue of Diversity Management in the organizational and marketing sphere, starting with a sample of 81 corporate managers and executives of organizations or institutions who showed an enthusiastic collaboration. Coordinators and implementers of the research project are Serena Gianfaldoni and Caterina Greco.

Contributions of Donatella Armentano, Enrico Barbini, Samuele Bordini, Gian Marco Comparini, Leonardo Conti, Vittoria De Luca, Elena Della Maggiora, Luca Loiacono, Serena Gianfaldoni, Clarissa Giuliani, Caterina Greco, Jun Guang Zhang, Patrizia Magnante, Axel Nouazi Pacome, Biancamaria Nuzzi, Sara Petrucci, Valeria Picchianti, Mariachiara Pisacreta, Ursa Pondelek, Niccolò Rinaldi, Nunzio Rizzi, Adriana Russo, Niccolò Viale.

Serena Gianfaldoni teaches Human Resources Management at the Engineering School of the University of Pisa; CAFRE expert Interdisciplinary Center for Updating, Training and Educational Research of the University of Pisa; head of the LINK University-Business Laboratory; Board of the Italian Sociological Society; Director of the International Studies Observatory on the Mediterranean; author of numerous texts in the field of Human Resources Management and Communication.

Caterina Greco is a linguist and an expert in English literature. Together with Serena Gianfaldoni she coordinated the Diversity Management Project developed within the Master in Empowerment of Different Skills and Inclusive Education created by the CAFRE University of Pisa, Interdepartmental Centre of the University of Pisa which has been dealing with updating, training and educational research for the last twenty years.