Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide - Hardcover

Gardenswartz, Lee; Rowe, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556236395 ISBN 13: 9781556236396

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1993

Synopsis

Learning tools and activities for managing a diverse workplace

Most new entrants to today′s workforce are women and those from cultural minorities. Here is a comprehensive guide for dealing with the unprecedented challenges of this culturally expanding workforce.

Presents a blAnd of conceptual information and useful tools that show you how to:

• Conduct a diversity audit to find the most effective program for an organization′s needs
• Create a culture that embraces diversity to maximize the potential of the workforce
• Build cohesive, multicultural teams
• Hire, train, and promote a diverse workforce

Worksheets, activities, and charts follow each significant issue outlined and help implement the ideas presented. The combination of individual assessments, management–training tools, systems audits, and clear models provide a complete reference that will help you understand your organization′s present state and how to improve conditions. Managing Diversity clearly identifies the need to understand the array of values and backgrounds in the workforce, while helping you bring the benefit of those backgrounds to the job.

About this title

Book Description

Managing Diversity is a comprehensive reference on diversity with an excellent misture of practical information, worksheets and activities. It goes past diversity awareness to systemic, long-term, hands-on implementation of a diversity strategy. Included are approximately 100 charts, checklists, suggested activities, worksheets, systems audits, exercises, sample interview questions, and tip sheets. Each exercise, worksheet, etc. is accompanied by a full page of the author's suggestions on how it can be best utilized in the trenches as well as how it fits in to the theory of what is being explained in the text. It covers everything from theory, implementation, evaluation and measurement to what the future holds and why some programs have failed and what to do about it, as well as offering a comprehensive resource section.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the previous edition of Managing Diversity. "It's a gold mine! I was excited to see that it truly is a complete desk reference. This book addresses every aspect of workplace diversity issues, from the individual, group, and organizational perspectives."--Jeanne Hartley, Manager of Training and Development, The Los Angeles Times. "Managing Diversity is an outstanding, usable reference book loaded with answers on 'what to do' and 'how to do it' in managing our diverse work force."--David W. Jamieson, Ph.D., President, Jamieson Consulting Group Coauthor of Manging Workforce 2000 and Gaining the Diversity Advantage. "Managing Diversity is well-written, comprehensive, user-friendly, sensitive, and a must read and library addition for all those whose mission includes work force diversity issues."--Jeffrey N. Wallace Director, Workforce Diversity and EEO Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe's bestselling Managing Diversity is THE diversity resource, showing thousands of executives how to make the best, most profitable use of today's culturally expanding workforce. Now, as we approach the turn of the century--when the majority of new entrants to the workforce are projected to be women and minorities--Managing Diversity has been comprehensively revised and updated to provide the most current information on this vital topic. Packed with worksheets, activities, and charts, it includes all the tools and information your organization needs to make diversity work, from implementation and evaluation to measurement. Managing Diversity illustrates why some programs have failed--and what to do about it to ensure the success of your multicultural organization. Create a corporate culture that embraces its diversity! The all-in-one Managing Diversity continues to be the only reference and planning guide you will need to: conduct a diversity audit in your organization to design the most effective program for your needs; build cohesive multicultural work teams to maximize the cooperative potential of your workforce; hire, train, manage, and promote people in today's culturally diverse workforce.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556236395
• ISBN 13: 9781556236396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446