Understanding diversity managersõ role in organizational change: Towards a conceptual framework

The paper presents a conceptual framework charting the agency of diversity managers in organizational change. Evaluating and critiquing the contemporary models of organizational change management, we identify three concepts, which are situatedness, relationality, and praxis, for understanding the diversity managers' agency in the organizational change process. Each orienting concept is explored in the context of current diversity management literature and their combined explanatory power is discussed. Copyright © 2009 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.