A Case for Moving From Tolerance Tovaluing Diversity: The Issue of Religiously Distinctive Dress and Appearance

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Abstract

What are the administrative implications of public agency dress codes that have the effect of barring an employee from maintaining a personal appearance mandated by his or her religion? The conflict is generally presented as one between the right of a public organization to promote uniformity or religious neutrality versus the employee's right to religious free exercise, with the agency asserting that it maximizes its own goals by prohibiting religiously mandated clothing. The argument of this article is that the issue should be reconceptualized as one centering on workforce diversity. © 1993, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Identifier

0141988221 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Review of Public Personnel Administration

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X9301300203

e-ISSN

1552759x

ISSN

0734371X

First Page

29

Last Page

44

Issue

2

Volume

13

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