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Managing a Diverse Workforce: Learning Activities

Autor Gary N. Powell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2011
Managing a Diverse Workforce provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity. Participation in these exercises helps students gain a greater appreciation of the wide range of issues that arise when people classify themselves or are classified by others as members of different groups, on whatever basis. More than half of the 30 learning activities are new to this
Third Edition.
The learning activities have several noteworthy features:
 
- They explore the impact of diversity on the basis of numerous personal characteristics, including gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, national culture, religion, socioeconomic status, education, appearance, weight, marital status, and parental status.
- They address pre-organizational and organizational entry issues as well as issues that arise in the workplace.
- They examine issues pertaining to individuals’ work and personal lives and to society as a whole.
- They consider what it is like to manage, be managed by, and work with diverse others as peers.
- They offer powerful learning experiences that involve individuals, groups, and entire classes or training programs.
- They offer different types of learning experiences, including diagnostic instruments, role plays, and simulations.
- They draw upon many types of work settings, including both business and not-for-profit organizations.
- Managing a Diverse Workforce is a perfect companion to core texts in workforce diversity, managing diversity, and human resource development, including Gary Powell's Women and Men in Management, Fourth Edition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412990929
ISBN-10: 1412990920
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

Introduction/Dimensions of Diversity
1. Your Pie Chart
2. People Like Us
Working with People in the Majority Group
3. Becoming a Minority
Working with People from a Different National Culture
4. Would You Repeat That?
Being Socialized
5. Gender-Based Perceptions
6. Once Upon a Time
Making Employment Decisions
7. Consulting Analyst Wanted
8. Who Gets Hired?
Working in Diverse Teams
9. The Prison “Break”
Promoting Positive Race Relations
10. Beyond O. J.
Leading People
11. Designer Decorations
Dealing with Sexuality in the Workplace
12. Dealing With Sexually Oriented Behavior
13. Mixing Sex and Work
Managing the Work-Family Interface
14. Have I Got Good News for Us!
15. Managing From a Distance
Pursuing a Career
16. Networking Role Play
Working as a Non-Family Member in a Family Firm
17. We Are Family
Working with People with Disabilities
18. Puzzled Perceptions
19. Sara’s Acting Strange Lately
Working with People of a Different Age
20. The Older Employee
21. The College Graduate
Promoting Nondiscrimination
22. Diversity Incidents
Promoting Diversity
23. Affirmative Action at Ole State
Promoting Inclusion
24. The Inclusive Workplace

Notă biografică

Gary N. Powell, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Gender in Management (6th ed.), Gender and Leadership, Making Work and Family Work: From Hard Choices to Smart Choices, and Managing a Diverse Workforce: Learning Activities (3rd ed.), and the editor of Handbook of Gender and Work. He is an internationally recognized scholar and educator on gender, diversity, and work-family issues in the workplace. His graduate course on women and men in management won an award on innovation in education from the Committee on Equal Opportunity for Women of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). He has won the University of Connecticut School of Business Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (four times) and Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. He has received the University of Connecticut President¿s Award for Promoting Multiculturalism.

He has served as Chair of the Women in Management Division (now Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Division) of the Academy of Management and received both the Janet Chusmir Service Award for his contributions to the division and the Sage Scholarship Award for his contributions to research on gender in organizations. He has received the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management for his contributions to business and management research in the United Kingdom (UK). He has received the Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award of the Work and Family Researchers Network and was also named as a Top Ten Extraordinary Contributor for his contributions to work and family research. He has served as Distinguished Scholar at Lancaster University Management School in Lancaster, UK. He has published over 120 articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Human Relations; contributed over 30 chapters to edited volumes; and made over 180 presentations at professional conferences. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, Academy of Social Sciences, and Eastern Academy of Management. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management and as President of the Eastern Academy of Management. He has served as co-editor of a special issue of Academy of Management Review on work-life theory and on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and Academy of Management Executive

Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, he worked at General Electric (GE), graduating from its Manufacturing Management Program. At GE, he designed and implemented automated project scheduling systems as well as systems for inventory control, materials procurement, and so on. He has provided management training and development for many companies, including Webster Financial Corporation, The Hartford Financial Services Group, The Implementation Partners (TIP), GE Capital, General Signal, Apple Computer, Monroe Auto Equipment, Allstate, and CIGNA and has conducted numerous other workshops.

He holds a doctorate in organizational behavior and a master¿s degree in management science from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor¿s degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


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Provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity.