What are diversity and diversity management

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This research paper looks to provide a clear overview ...

Author: Dr. Christoph Grützmacher

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

ISBN: 9783668685475

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 18

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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This research paper looks to provide a clear overview of diversity and diversity management. After these terms have been defined, the focus will shift to some of the opportunities and obstacles associated with diversity, after which a conclusion shall be drawn to show why diversity management plays an important part in human resource management in a world that is becoming increasingly globalized.
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The Manager s Pocket Guide to Diversity Management

This pocket guide will teach you the skills required to effectively manage a diverse workplace-not because it's the "right thing to do" or your organization requires it, but because it is good for business.

Author: Edward Hubbard

Publisher: Human Resource Development

ISBN: 9780874257618

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 206

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This pocket guide will teach you the skills required to effectively manage a diverse workplace; not because it's the 'right thing to do' or your organization requires it. But because it is good for business. Gain diversity awareness, tools, knowledge and techniques necessary to lift morale, improve processes, bring access to new segments of the marketplace, enhance productivity and improve your bottom line. Step-by-step, this interactive workbook will help you: Test your skills in managing diversity; Save management time; Navigate difficult situations Build teamwork; Improve your interpersonal effectivene. Complete the 'Managing Diversity Profile' to examine your current level of skill and get feedback on six key competencies for managing diversity. The book also contains workplace applications for weaving diversity into recruitment and selection, employee retention and development, team building, customer service, market share improvement throughout your organization. Topics include: Differences between EEO, Affirmative Action and managing diversity Barriers to diversity: Prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination and non-verbal communication; Diversity and organizational change; Working together productively; Management action plan. Whether you're ready to launch a new diversity initiative, build a diverse work team or plan a new and innovative product launch, this pocket guide will be an invaluable tool for developing managers and leaders.
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Successful Diversity Management Initiatives

particularly with human resources personnel , who often perceive the purview of the diversity director as theirs . ( c ) Because most employees and people in general cannot distinguish between affirmative action and diversity management ...

Author: Patricia Arredondo

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 0803972911

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 254

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Thousands of organizations are beginning to address the issue of workforce diversity management. This important new book helps answer questions typically raised by these organizations as they face diversity-related change. Why should we do this? How will we know we are being successful? What kind of change can we expect? Successful Diversity Management Initiatives presents an innovative, step-by-step model to help plan, direct, and manage strategic organizational development. This model emphasizes ongoing evaluation and clarification during each phase and propose a prototype for measuring both qualitative and quantitative results. Vignettes based on organizational experiences are used to demonstrate how particular steps in the model occur and how they hold generic value. Intended for practical application, the book is supported by case examples, summaries at the end of each chapter that include a checklist for organizational self-assessment, models, and a glossary.
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Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross Cultural Workforce

Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as gender diversity, workforce trends, and inclusion management, this book is geared towards business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and students seeking ...

Author: Sharma, Naman

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781522549345

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 381

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Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversification in business. By utilizing focused inclusion policies and practices, businesses can guide work environments and create an optimal business culture. Management Techniques for a Diverse and Cross-Cultural Workforce is a critical scholarly resource that examines the emerging work culture to understand the underlying human processes prevalent in modern organizations. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as gender diversity, workforce trends, and inclusion management, this book is geared towards business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on diversity management.
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World Class Diversity Management

This book offers a comprehensive blueprint that will enable leaders to address any diversity issue (not just race or gender) in any setting, anywhere in the world.

Author: Roosevelt Thomas

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

ISBN: 9781605099422

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 288

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With demographic shifts and globalization transforming the nature of relationships, interactions, and decision making, excellence in diversity management is more important than ever. However, the field of diversity has no established standard for evaluating what constitutes best practices, nor has there been any agreement on what the most fundamental philosophies, principles, and concepts are—until now. In this pioneering book R. Roosevelt Thomas, one of our most distinguished diversity theorists and practitioners, proposes a framework that will enable the development of a truly world-class diversity management capability. It was the development of such standards in manufacturing that enabled companies to strategically pursue excellence in this area. A world-class approach to diversity management must be applicable anywhere in the world, be able to address any possible issue, facilitate comparison of different concepts and practices, and focus on the entire field of diversity rather than specific dimensions such as race or gender. These requirements are amply met by Thomas’s Four Quadrant model and his Strategic Diversity Management ProcessTM. Thomas first analyzes each of four quadrants—managing workforce demographic representation, managing demographic relationships, managing diverse talent, and managing strategic mixtures—exploring the goals, motives, approaches, accomplishments, and challenges associated with each. And he reveals the unrecognized paradigm or mind-set that lies behind each quadrant’s express purpose. Once he has laid out the broad range of diversity management strategies, Thomas discusses how to realize them. He offers an overview of the Strategic Diversity Management Process—by far the most effective framework for implementation. He also examines the on-the-ground dynamics of implementing each of the strategies and their associated paradigms by incorporating a case study of a CEO, a composite of the many executives Thomas has worked with.
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Gender and Diversity in Management

In this engaging and handy book, Gatrell and Swan provide both an insightful introduction and much-needed resource to the understanding of gender and diversity in management.

Author: Caroline Gatrell

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9780857023063

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 120

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In this engaging and handy book, Gatrell and Swan provide both an insightful introduction and much-needed resource to the understanding of gender and diversity in management. Gender and Diversity in Management accessibly overviews the core issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and diversity in management. In an area where there is often conflicting scholarship, this concise introduction assesses the key contemporary issues, and takes stock of the debates amongst scholars and practitioners. It will also be of great value to managers from a range of organizations, who seek a practical and up-to-date guide to contemporary thought and practice. Gender and Diversity in Management is designed for students on courses across a range of business and management subjects including Women in Management, Gender in Management, Equal Opportunities and Diversity, and Human Resource Management. It will also be of great value to managers from a range of organizations and sectors who wish to understand better the debates, or who seek a practical and up-to-date guide to contemporary thought and practice.
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Successful Diversity Management Initiatives

--Anna Duran, Ph.D, Principal, Anna Duran & Associates & Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University "In this book Dr. Patricia Arredondo really captures the kind of experiences we have had as to what works and what ...

Author: Patricia Arredondo

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISBN: 9781452221182

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 248

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Successful Diversity Management Initiatives presents the specific phases and steps to help plan, direct, and manage strategic organizational development, and serves as a developmental model for diversity-related change.
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Handbook of Diversity Management

The frameworks in the book build a strong business case for workplace inclusion.

Author: Deborah Plummer

Publisher: Deborah L Plummer, Phd, LLC

ISBN: 0996672052

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 540

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Handbook of Diversity Management makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of diversity because of its distinguished contributors and its comprehensive, integrative presentation that helps define diversity management as an academic field of study and practice. The frameworks in the book build a strong business case for workplace inclusion.
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Handbook of Workplace Diversity

Working across differences : Diversity practices for organizational change , CGO Insights Briefing Note # 17 . Center for Gender in Organizations : Simmons School of Management . Horwitz , F. M. , Bowmaker - Falconer .

Author: Alison M Konrad

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 0761944222

Category: Social Science

Page: 576

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Showcases the scope of international perspectives that exist on workplace diversity and defines this field. This book is a useful resource for students and academics of human resource management, organisational behaviour, organisational psychology and organisation studies.
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World Class Diversity Management

This book offers a comprehensive blueprint that will enable leaders to address any diversity issue (not just race or gender) in any setting, anywhere in the world.

Author: R. Roosevelt Thomas

Publisher: National Geographic Books

ISBN: 9781605094502

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 0

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Globalization is transforming the very nature of our business relationships, decision-making processes, and interactions, making world-class diversity management more needed than ever before. But until now, the field of diversity had no established standard for evaluating best practices, or even agreement on fundamental philosophies, principles, and concepts. In this pioneering book, the world’s leading diversity authority proposes a framework that will facilitate the development of a truly world-class standard for diversity management. R. Roosevelt Thomas begins by laying out his Four Quadrant model, which encompasses all core diversity strategies: managing workforce demographic representation, managing demographic relationships, managing diverse talent, and managing all strategic diversity mixtures. He analyzes the goals, motives, approaches, accomplishments, and challenges associated with each quadrant, as well as the paradigm or mindset that lies behind each quadrant’s express purpose. Having laid out this broad range of strategies, Thomas shows how to realize them through the Strategic Diversity Management Process™, by far the most effective method for implementation. A detailed case study of CEO Jeff Kilt—a fictional composite of the many executives Thomas has worked with—effectively illustrates the complexities encountered when working with each of the Four Quadrant strategies in the real world. This book offers a comprehensive blueprint that will enable leaders to address any diversity issue (not just race or gender) in any setting, anywhere in the world. Most important, it proves that a world-class standard of diversity management is indeed a possible and achievable goal.
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