| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 406 pages) : illustrations |
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Wiley handbooks in the psychology of management in organizations |
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Wiley handbooks in the psychology of management in organizations.
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| Contents |
Developing strategic approaches to diversity policy / Gill Kirton -- The importance of diversity in innovation / Carolann Ashton -- Diversity in the context of business ethics / Catherine Cassell and Phil Johnson -- Managing diversity : developing a strategy for measuring organizational effectiveness / Michael L. Wheeler -- Management of diversity in the UK : the legal and psychological implications / Jill Earnshaw -- Affirmative action as a means of increasing workforce diversity / Alison M. Konrad and Frank Linnehan -- Principles and practice of gender diversity management in Australia / Mary Barrett and Andrew Hede -- Organizational efforts to manage diversity : do they really work? / Penny Dick -- Managing diversity : caste and gender issues in organizations in India / Elisabeth M. Wilson -- Gender diversity and organizational performance / Deborah Hicks-Clarke and Paul Iles -- Analysing the operation of diversity on the basis of disability / Carol Woodhams and Ardha Danieli -- Managing racial equality and diversity in the UK construction industry / Andrew W. Gale [and others] -- Is diversity inevitable? Age and ageism in the future of employment / Chris Brotherton -- Designing a diversity training programme that suits your organization / Roberta Youtan Kay and Donna M. Stringer -- Diversity issues in the mentoring relationship / David Clutterbuck -- Networking and the modernization of local public services : implications for diversity / Jean Hartley and Lyndsay Rashman -- Workable strategies and effectiveness of diversity training / David L. Tan, Lee A. Morris and James Romero -- What you see is what you get : popular culture, gender and workplace diversity / Alison Sheridan and Jane O'Sullivan -- Male managers' reactions to gender diversity activities in organizations / Anna Wahl and Charlotte Holgersson -- Bias in job selection and assessment techniques / Mike Smith -- Cultural diversity programmes to prepare for the twenty-first century : failures and lost opportunities / Norma M. Riccucci -- Cultural diversity in the IT-globalizing workplace : conundra and future research / Nada Korac-Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin and Andrew Dorac-Kakabadse -- The future of workplace diversity in the new millennium / Tony Montes and Graham Shaw |
| Summary |
Workplace initiatives to manage diversity seek to fully develop the potential of each employee and turn their unique skills into a business advantage. Such fostering of difference enhances team creativity, innovation and problem-solving and is therefore a |
| Analysis |
ER Internet Book Full text |
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FACsci |
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Psychology (general) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Diversity in the workplace.
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Multiculturalism.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davidson, Marilyn.
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Fielden, Sandra L.
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| LC no. |
2003003581 |
| ISBN |
0470013354 (electronic bk.) |
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0470869631 (electronic bk.) |
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0471499714 (acid-free paper) |
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1280101628 |
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6610101620 |
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9780470013359 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470869635 (electronic bk.) |
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9780471499718 (acid-free paper) |
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9781280101625 |
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9786610101627 |
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