Managing diversity
toward a globally inclusive workplace
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Summary
Managing Diversity provides an original and comprehensive text that is useful for teaching, organizational development, and scholarship. Successful management of an increasingly diverse workforce is today among the most important global challenges that corporate leaders, human resource managers, and management consultants face. Worldwide, immigration, worker migration (guest workers), and gender and ethnic differences continue to dramatically change the composition of the work environment. Workforce diversity is not a transient phenomenon - it is today's reality and it is here to stay. Homogeneous societies have become heterogeneous and this trend is irreversible. The book presents a model for the Inclusive Workplace, a work organization that is not only accepting and utilizing the diversity of its own work force, but is also active in the community, participates in state and federal programs to include marginalized populations, and collaborates across cultural and national boundaries. The inclusive work place is one that: * Values and utilizes individual and inter-group differences within its workforce; * Cooperates with, and contributes to, its surrounding community; * Alleviates the needs of disadvantaged groups in its wider environment; and, * Collaborates with individuals, groups, and organizations across national and cultural boundaries. The book demonstrates the benefits of implementing inclusive practices and incorporates vignettes from different countries around the world and case studies illustrating practical solutions. Features and Benefits: Offers up-to-date information on the new realities of the workforce, including demographic, legislation, and social policy trends around the world Analyzes the causes and consequences of workforce exclusion, highlighting the groups commonly excluded in various countries Provides a comprehensive model of the Inclusive Workplace suggesting policies, procedures and programs that facilitate its implementation.