What Structures

A communicative approach to ethnic diversity in German media companies

Bibliographic Data

ID12909279
AuthorsHeike Graf (0000-0003-1443-6537, Södertörn University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume11
Issue5
Pages544-558
Publication date2016-03-10
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2016.1155969
OpenAlexW2565584930
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This article examines how the topic of an ethnically diverse workforce can become an organizational problem (or not) in private media companies. The study is based on interviews with Human Resources managers and persons responsible for diversity issues at these companies. This article favors a communicative approach by relating structures to agency through the concept of expectation. This is in contrast to the bulk of media research, which considers structures as something fixed and objective in determining organizational action. By exploring the expectations structures we can see which expectation patterns condition organizational communication. As a result, the main pattern of migrant background as adding value to the organization (or not) could be revealed as a guiding distinction in organizational communication about diverse workforces

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Business · Diversity (politics · Economics · Knowledge management · Management · Organizational commitment · Organizational communication · Organizational structure · Organizational studies · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Workforce · Workforce diversity · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Management and Organizational Studies

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