Studying international perspectives on diversity management provides a wealth of insight into how diversity may be managed under different national systems and institutions. International perspectives can help us understand and transcend the path-dependent visions of managing diversity in domestic contexts.

Diversity management is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Diversity management is treated in different ways across domestic systems in terms of its place in the organizational structure and national political discourses. It also has multiple levels of analyses, including international and national levels, organizational and group levels, and micro-individual levels. It has not only multiple voices but it also has different meaning, perspectives and practices across different countries.

There are a number of themes and issues related to diversity that are not mutually exclusive but interact and overlap. Among the most powerful themes to emerge include: The influential role of factors in the external, international environment on business in general and diversity management in particular. A need to consider diversity management at a number of levels, particularly at the macro-national and international level, the meso or organizational and group level, and the micro-individual level.

The emerging debate about the convergence and divergence of diversity management practices across the globe and the emerging practice of cross-vergence. The conflicting, perceived or actual implications of diversity for organizational performance, whereas reality is to be found somewhere between creativity and conflict, productivity and tensions, inclusion and power imbalances, etc. The overlapping of diversity with business ethics and social responsibility.

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