This subject presents a multi-disciplinary overview of the issues and problems raised by the increasing diversity of the workforce and it evaluates organizational challenges and opportunities created by the need to attract, develop, and retain employees and managers from a diverse range of backgrounds and/or abilities. It introduces students to concepts and theoretical constructs that enhance understanding of difference and diversity, such as gender, identity, ethnicity and disability. It examines strategies required to more effectively deal with prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, inter-group conflict, cultural clash, structural integration and organizational change. In this way the course relates the management of equity and diversity to changes in work organization, human resource management and industrial relations, as these involve issues of power and politics, legislative intervention and regulation, labour market segmentation, organisational power and politics, Equal Employment Opportunities, the merit principle, and organisational culture.