This study analyses the perspectives of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) on workplace diversity. Organizational diversity is a well-established research topic in both profit management and organization studies, as well as in nonprofit scholarship. However, diversity is often discussed from a managerial point of view and, particularly in nonprofits, with little attention to workplace diversity. Using interview data from 25 Belgian NPOs, we explore how leaders in different types of nonprofits approach workplace diversity, discursively and in their organizational practices. Our analysis is centered around Maier and Meyer's typology on nonprofit governance and aims to understand how workplace diversity is perceived in organizations with a domestic, professionalist, grassroots, and civic discourse. We outline the main diversity perspectives underlying these governance discourses. Our study reveals that the way NPO leaders approach workplace diversity is shaped by their overall governance, resulting in differing discourses that go beyond business or social justice rationales. We conclude that there are various ways in which NPOs differentiate diversity, making it important not only to go beyond a managerial/business and social justice discourse, but also to unpack the different forms in which civic or grassroots discourses for example manifest themselves in the nonprofit sector.

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非营利组织工作场所多元化：关于种族多样性的讨论和观点

本研究分析了非营利组织 (NPO) 对工作场所多样性的看法。组织多样性是利润管理和组织研究以及非营利学术领域中一个成熟的研究主题。然而，多样性通常是从管理的角度来讨论的，特别是在非营利组织中，很少关注工作场所的多样性。我们利用来自 25 家比利时非营利组织的访谈数据，探讨了不同类型非营利组织的领导者如何在话语和组织实践中实现工作场所多样性。我们的分析以迈尔和迈耶关于非营利组织治理的类型学为中心，旨在了解在拥有国内、专业人士、草根和公民话语的组织中如何看待工作场所多样性。我们概述了这些治理话语背后的主要多样性观点。我们的研究表明，非营利组织领导者对待工作场所多样性的方式是由他们的整体治理决定的，从而导致超出商业或社会正义原理的不同话语。我们的结论是，非营利组织可以通过多种方式区分多样性，因此不仅要超越管理/商业和社会正义话语，而且要解开公民或草根话语在非营利组织中表现的不同形式。部门。