Eighteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

In this article, we explore how, as part of the implementation of an ethnocultural diversity initiative, members of a project team come to negotiate new standards and practices for managing diversity. Through the analysis of two meetings of a diversity project team in a large Canadian parapublic organization, we examine communication practices by which members discuss the standards to be preferred in the implementation of a new welcoming structure and the determination of hiring rules for the new diversity workers. Above all, we show, based on this analysis, how the voices and figures that populate their interactions are engaged in the implementation of the initiative and the mobilization of standards relevant to the implementation of the project.