Increasing Diversity (Paperback). This item is unavailable.Increasing Diversity (Paperback)

Paperback. Diversity has been a leadership topic since at least the 1990s. Sincethen, socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, religious and ethical diversitycontinues to increase through massive migration and digital media. Thisincreasing complexity of diversity is now labeled assuperdiversity.Organizations become complex adaptive systems to respond to thesechallenges. Some organizations thrive, achieving new levels ofcreativity and innovation. Other organizations are overwhelmed, losingcontrol, threatened to the core of their identity. How canorganizational identities be adapted to incorporate healthy levels ofdiversity without losing vision, direction and control? Whichorganizational and leadership skills are needed to enhance creativityand productivity in a superdiverse environment? An international conference at the ETF (Leuven, Belgium) addressed thesechallenges. This volume sketches the contours of the diversityleadership debate, its ethical and spiritual dimensions and the shape ofdiversity leadership in religious institutions such as faith communitiesand schools of theology. Organizations become complex adaptive systems to respond to these challenges. Some organizations thrive, achieving new levels of creativity and innovation. Other organizations are overwhelmed, losing control, threatened to the core of their identity. How can organizational identities be adapted to incorporate healthy levels of divers Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…