Purpose – The paper's aim is to examine how diversity management discourse reproduces heteronormative essentialist notions of identity in organisations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a critical analysis of diversity management discourse that draws upon concepts, frames and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which gender is “done” in executive search. The authors uncover how the ideal candidate for top management is defined in and through search practices, and discuss how and why women are excluded in the process....