Tania Saba is founder and holder of the BMO Chair in Diversity and Governance, and a full professor at the Université de Montréal's School of Industrial Relations. Her expertise covers the fields of diversity management, workforce aging, intergenerational value differences, work organization transformations and future skills.
Tania collaborates on major research projects with public and private organizations on issues of employment equity and the integration of under-represented groups into the workforce. In 2021, the Canadian Industrial Relations Association presented her with the Gérard Dion Award, recognizing individuals or organizations who have made a significant contribution to the field of industrial relations.
Tania Saba heads up the Quebec and Francophone communities of Canada pole of the Women in Entrepreneurship Knowledge Portal (WEKH) project run by Toronto Metropolitan University's Diversity Institute, of which she is a member. She is an affiliated member of the Future Skills Centre, OBVIA (Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l'AI et du numérique), CÉRIUM (Centre d'études internationales de Montréal) and CRIMT (Centre interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail).
Her most recent publications:
1. SABA, T., OUELLET, A-M., KLARSFELD, A. and CACHAT-ROSSET, G. (2023). "Measuring Inclusion", in Encyclopaedia of Diversity & Management, Klarsfeld, A., Bender, A.F., Nkomo, S., Taksa, L., & Cachat-Rosset, G., eds, Edward Elgar Publishing.
2. SABA T., CACHAT-ROSSET G., CARILLO K., KLARSFELD A. and MARSAN J. (2021) "Is teleworking here to stay? Learning from the Covid-19 experimentation", in Denis J.L., Régis C. and Weinstock D. (dir) Pandemic societies, chapter 7, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 0228010330, 9780228010333.
3. SABA T., OZBILGIN M., NG E. and CACHAT-ROSSET, G. (2021), "Guest editorial: Ineffectiveness of diversity management: lack of knowledge, lack of interest or resistance? ", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, vol. 40 no. 7, 765-769. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-09-2021-374