This special issue explores ethnic privileges in the context of work, organization and management from varied methodological and theoretical traditions, and across different international contexts and disparate fields. They all have strong theoretical and practical implications, developing therefore new perspectives and insights into understanding power privileges held by the ethnic majority in the management of people in organizations. We hope that readers will enjoy this special issue. While we attempted to tackle some important issues regarding ethnic privilege at work, future research can look more in depth into questions like: What are the remaining key issues that pertain to ethnic privileges (i.e. whiteness) in studies of work, organization and management across micro-individual, meso-organizational and/or macro-contextual levels How can we understand whiteness in organizations - as property, identity, discursive position, privilege, relations, embodied practices, emotions, imaginaries, temporalities How do ethnic privileges in the workplace intersect with other forms of privilege and disadvantage that are rooted in social identity groups such as class, gender, age, sexualities and migration What are the processes of whiteness that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and human resource management within different national contexts, specifically in emerging and under-researched marketsWhat are the dangers in making whiteness an object of human resource management analysis given its power to attach itself to a range of political and social agendas including 'progressive' postures.