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AULIKKI SIPPOLA
Essays on Human Resource Management
Perspectives on Diversity Management
ACTA WASAENSIA
No. 180
Business Administration 75
Management and Organization
UNIVERSITAS WASAENSIS 2007
Reviewers Professor, Ph.D. (Econ.), M.Sc. (Psych.) Iiris Aaltio
School of Business and Economics
P.O. Box 35
FI–40014 Jyväskylä University
Finland
Professor, D.Soc.Sc. Pauli Juuti
Lappeenranta University of Technology
School of Business
P.O. Box 20
FI–53851 Lappeenranta
Finland
ACTA WASAENSIA 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This dissertation and my research project have been supported by many people
and organizations, to whom I would like to express my deep gratitude. Firstly, I
wish to thank the official examiners of this dissertation, Professors Iiris Aaltio
and Pauli Juuti for providing valuable comments on the manuscript. Secondly,
I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Vesa Suutari for his unwavering
support, constructive feedback and encouragement throughout the research
process.
I would like to thank the co‐authors of this dissertation, Jussi Leponiemi in
article one, and Adam Smale in article four. In addition, I wish to thank the
members of the research group at the University of Vaasa, Department of
Management for their support. I would also like to thank Kimmo Happonen
and Adam Smale for proofreading my manuscript and articles. My warmest
thanks also go to all interviewed persons and organizations participating in my
research project and to Anneli Sintonen, for offering me access to those
organizations belonging to the EU/EQUAL‐project ETMO. I hope that this
study will be of practical use to organizations for dealing with diversity
management issues.
I am also very grateful to Professor Pirkko Pitkänen, who encouraged me to
start this study within an area just emerging in Finland, and contributing to its
inclusion into the Lifelong Learning‐programme of the Academy of Finland. I
am also grateful for the generous funding of the following institutions and
foundations: The Academy of Finland, The Finnish Work Environment Fund,
The Finnish Foundation for Economic and Technology Sciences‐ KAUTE, the
Foundation for Economic Education and the Oskar Öflund Foundation.
Finally, I owe special thanks, and my deepest appreciation, to my family: my
husband Rainer, and children Mats and Inga‐Stina, for their love, patience,
flexibility and comfort from the beginning. To my parents, for teaching me
Finnish perseverance and optimism, which have carried me forward in life. My
warmest thanks go also to the families of my sister, brother and Susu in Canada
for their long‐distance support as well as to Sari Hammar‐Suutari for our
invaluable discussions.
Espoo, June 18th, 2007
Aulikki Sippola
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