Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I -- Perspectives; Chapter 1 -- Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations; Chapter 2 -- National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations; Chapter 3 -- ""Whiting Out"" Social Justice; Chapter 4 -- Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations: Theories for Practice; Chapter 5 -- School Contexts and Learning: Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Students of Color; Part II -- Organizational and Institutional Settings; Chapter 6 -- Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts
Chapter 7 -- Teachers as (Multi)Cultural Agents in SchoolsChapter 8 -- Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education; Chapter 9 -- Mental Health: The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice; Chapter 10 -- The House of God: The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine; Chapter 11 -- And Justice is Blind (to Race and Ethnicity): That is Not Good!; Part III -- Interventions and Applications for Training; Chapter 12 -- Classic Defenses: A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leaders' Responses to Diversity
Chapter 13 -- Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community OrganizationsChapter 14 -- Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations: Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting; Chapter 15 -- Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences; Chapter 16 -- Cultural Issues in Organizations: Summary and Conclusions; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Editor; About the Contributing Authors
Summary
Analyzing how unexamined cultural patterns influence an organization's culture, this book provides conceptual models and ideas about how to build practical approaches to organizational interventions. The contributors focus on the broad issues such as how organizational leaders shape and influence the agenda surrounding culture; cover institutional and organizational issues in corporate, educational, mental health, and service organizations; and discuss various organizational intervention strategies and approaches
